Words Like APPROPRIATION

We have put together a list of words that are similar to APPROPRIATION.

6 Alternative Words Similar to appropriation

1 Acquiring Noun      Synonym Words Like Acquiring
2 Getting Noun      Synonym Words Like Getting
3 Money Noun      Synonym Words Like Money
4 Adoption Noun      Hyponym Words Like Adoption
5 Borrowing Noun      Hyponym Words Like Borrowing
6 Seizure Noun      Hyponym Words Like Seizure

1 examples of appropriation

1 a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest

10 definitions of 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.
2 Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
3 The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
4 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.
5 money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
6 incorporation by joining or uniting
7 a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner
8 The act of appropriating.
9 Something appropriated, especially public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
10 A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.
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