appropriation

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
noun incorporation by joining or uniting
noun a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner

From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō. By surface analysis, appropriate + -ion.

A Congressional appropriation costs money. — The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain
=votar=, to vote (as, an appropriation by Congress). — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
THE LAW OF CONCENTRATION OR APPROPRIATION 459 II. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide

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