Synonyms for appropriation
əˌproʊ priˈeɪ ʃənap·pro·pri·a·tion

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1. appropriationnoun

   money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

   Synonyms:
   annexation

2. annexation, appropriationnoun

   incorporation by joining or uniting

   Synonyms:
   annexation

3. appropriationnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   annexation

Matched Categories

1. • Acquiring
   • Incorporation
   • Legislature
   • Money

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1. columbusing

   columbus "discovering" america, but america discovered columbus.

   claiming miley cyrus invented twerking is columbusing. calling cornrows "boxer braids" are columbusing.

   Submitted by rinat on May 3, 2016  

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1. appropriationnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, capture, taking, taking to one's self

2. appropriationnoun

   Synonyms:
   application (to a particular use)

3. appropriationnoun

   Synonyms:
   sum set apart (for a specific object)

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1. List of paraphrases for "appropriation":

   credit, appropriations, credits, apportionment, ownership, allocation, provision, vote, reliance, allotment, funding

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How to use appropriation in a sentence?

1. Grover Cleveland:

   I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

2. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn:

   There's not going to be any clean debt ceiling increase, but obviously, there's going to be a big package, perhaps, of everything from tax extenders to appropriation bills and the like.

3. Michael Frerichs:

   We’ll make far less in interest than we’ll be paying in interest to the bondholders, i think we need to make these investments in infrastructure, but we're going about it in the wrong order. It seems backwards issuing the bonds and hoping they get an appropriation to spend them.

4. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   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.

5. Meghan McCain:

   We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.