Noun appropriation has 3 senses
  1. appropriation - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
    --1 is a kind of
    money
    --1 has particulars: pork barrel, pork
  2. annexation, appropriation - incorporation by joining or uniting
    --2 is a kind of incorporation
  3. appropriation - a deliberate act of acquisition
    --3 is a kind of
    acquiring, getting
    --3 has particulars:
     borrowing, adoption; preemption, pre-emption; seizure; sequestration, requisition
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