English to English noun
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money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose | | source: wordnet30
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incorporation by joining or uniting | | source: wordnet30
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a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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