Appropriation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'Appropriation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Appropriation

[ n.]

- The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
- Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
- The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
- The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.

Meaning of 'Appropriation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . appropriation

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner

Example in sentence:

a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest;
the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit

Nearby Words:

appair appalachian appall appalled appalling appallment appanage appanagist apparaillyng apparatus

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Appropriation account
Appropriation account is a part of a profit and loss account which shows how each part of the profit has been dealt with (such as how

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