appropriation

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noun

1. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose (Freq. 3)
• Topics:
legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers
• Hypernyms:
money
• Hyponyms:
pork barrel, pork
2. incorporation by joining or uniting
• Syn:
annexation
• Derivationally related forms:
annexational (for: annexation)
• Hypernyms:
incorporation
3. a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner
- the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit
- a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest
• Hypernyms:
acquiring, getting
• Hyponyms:
borrowing, adoption, preemption, pre-emption, seizure,
sequestration, requisition