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appropriation
noun
1 appropriation
Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose.
Roget 786:
apportionment,
allotment,
consignment,
assignment,
appointment;
appropriation;
dispensation,
distribution;
division,
deal;
repartition,
partition;
administration.
dividend,
portion,
contingent,
share,
allotment,
fair share,
allocation,
lot,
measure,
dose;
dole,
meed,
pittance;
quantum,
ration;
ratio,
proportion,
quota,
modicum,
mess,
allowance;
suerte†.
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Roget 789:
taking
etc.
v.;
reception
etc.
(taking in)
296;
deglutition
etc.
(taking food)
298;
appropriation,
prehension,
prensation†;
capture,
caption;
apprehension,
deprehension†;
abreption†,
seizure,
expropriation,
abduction,
ablation;
subtraction,
withdrawal
etc.
38;
abstraction,
ademption†;
adrolepsy†.
dispossession;
deprivation,
deprivement†;
bereavement;
divestment;
disherison†;
distraint,
distress;
sequestration,
confiscation;
eviction
etc.
297.
rapacity,
rapaciousness,
extortion,
vampirism;
theft
etc.
791.
resumption;
reprise,
reprisal;
recovery
etc.
775.
clutch,
swoop,
wrench;
grip
etc.
(retention)
781;
haul,
take,
catch;
scramble.
taker,
captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate]
subduction [Geol.].
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Roget 791:
stealing
etc.
v.;
theft,
thievery,
latrociny†,
direption†;
abstraction,
appropriation;
plagiary,
plagiarism;
autoplagiarism†;
latrocinium†.
spoliation,
plunder,
pillage;
sack,
sackage†;
rapine,
brigandage,
foray,
razzia†,
rape,
depredation,
raid;
blackmail.
piracy,
privateering,
buccaneering;
license to plunder,
letters of marque,
letters of mark and reprisal.
filibustering,
filibusterism†;
burglary;
housebreaking;
badger game [Slang].
robbery,
highway robbery,
hold-up [U.S.],
mugging.
peculation,
embezzlement;
fraud
etc.
545;
larceny,
petty larceny,
grand larceny,
shoplifting.
thievishness,
rapacity,
kleptomania,
Alsatia†,
den of Cacus,
den of thieves.
blackmail,
extortion,
shakedown,
Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft]
thief
etc.
792.
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Dutch: toe-eigening
2 appropriation
Incorporation by joining or uniting.
synonym: annexation.
Polish: anektowanie
3 appropriation
A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner.
Polish: zawłaszczanie
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