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Meaning of appropriation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  appropriation
      n 1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific
           purpose
      2: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: {annexation},
         {appropriation}]
      3: 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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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