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appropriation

An appropriation is money to be used for a specific purpose, usually by a government. The appropriations for new roads this year came to $1,000,000. Appropriation is the act of taking something for your own benefit.

appropriation

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

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Movie subtitles

Should I just stand around and let that drooling infant wrap that Willet Creek dam appropriation around my neck?
An appropriation for diverting and impounding the headwaters of Willet Creek in Terry Canyon. 5 million dollars.
Starting with the gas. How about the profit and loss appropriation account?
You can tell Kelly he'll get his appropriation.
That's avoiding the fact that it'll double last year's appropriation.
The claim that he plans to request double his last year's appropriation?
All right, Paul, you sent details of the appropriation request to General Henderson.
I didn't come in here to discuss the appropriation.
Colonel, as representatives of our respective governments we are being asked to approve the largest financial appropriation ever envisaged for a international project.
Second offenders under the new decree will be met by state appropriation of the unauthorized vehicles.
We haven't had their social analysis for two quarters or their data-processing appropriation tables!
I would like to ask about a declaration of the final appropriation.
Special representative to the joint congressional committee on military appropriation, Bill Marks?
Virginia police have arrested Scanlon and the Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduling hearings on the appropriation for the Eyetrap system.
I'm in a hell of a fight right now to get last year's appropriation approved.
As there are no other representations on this matter, I'll ask council now to vote on the appropriation of funds.
Infatuation, Justification, Appropriation, Obsession and Resale.
I can get the appropriation.
I would like to have the previously approved sum increased by an additional 30 million, bringing the total appropriation to 70 million.
I'm hoping to pin Edge down on that road appropriation money.
You didn't think I'd have a problem with the appropriation of my image for a marketing campaign that I never even signed off on?
She is very busy working on a story about the appropriation committee.
That requires an appropriation from Congress.
If you want that appropriation.
We've had the Pandora Cold Cream account for nine years, and we've always received the bulk of their appropriation.
What? I can't let you know on the equipment. until I hear from the Senate about the new appropriation.
We may have good news for you on that appropriation very shortly.
Our appropriation came through.
Well, you know, Keith. Washington red tape. I couldn't get an appropriation.
They sue me for: theft, profanation, appropriation of movability, defilement.
The proletarian revolution is this critique of human geography, through which individuals and communities. must construct the sites and events. corresponding to the appropriation, not only of their labor, but of their total history.
Let the appropriation bill pass, as is.
My wife is not a budget appropriation.
I think Ken's concerned about the HHS appropriation.
The House and Senate just passed the emergency D.C. supplemental appropriation for snow removal.
So the president wants to issue a joint statement with you opposing the voucher rider on the snow-removal appropriation.
Soo, the forced appropriation of Sanrizuka starts and prefectural cops will be concentrated there.

News and current affairs

The state's gradual decomposition - its degenerate ethos of rent-seeking and appropriation of public goods - finally pushed Russia's citizens, especially its young post-communist middle class, into the streets.
These subsidies do not appear in any annual appropriation, and they are not well measured by the government - which is part of what makes them so appealing to the big banks and so damaging to everyone else.
Congress will be in session only briefly before the election, and a supplemental appropriation will pass only if President Bush pursues it vigorously as a bipartisan measure.
Persuading it to halt further unilateral appropriation of shared waters has thus become pivotal to Asian peace and stability.

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