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Meaning of APPROPRIATION in English

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.

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    Meaning of APPROPRIATION in English

    • 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.
    • Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
    • The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
    • 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.

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