appropriation
appropriation is a 13-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
- noun. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
- noun. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
- noun. The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.
- noun. 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"
- noun. incorporation by joining or uniting
- noun. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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