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1. Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
    
2. Incorporation by joining or uniting
   - annexation
    
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"

Derived forms: appropriations

See also: appropriative

Type of: acquiring, getting, incorporation, money

Encyclopedia: Appropriation