Found 3 items, similar to appropriation.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: appropriation sedekah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: appropriation appropriation n 1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose 2: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation] 3: a deliberate act of acquisition
English → English (gcide) Definition: Appropriation Appropriation \Ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. [1913 Webster] The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) 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. --Chitty. [1913 Webster]