'appropriation' definitions:
Definition of 'appropriation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
noun
Incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation, appropriation]
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"
Synonyms of 'appropriation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstraction,
- adoption,
- allocation,
- allotment,
- annexation,
- appointment,
- arrogation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- autoplagiarism,
- boosting,
- borrowed plumes,
- borrowing,
- colonization,
- conquest,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- copying,
- cribbing,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- earmarking,
- embezzlement,
- encroachment,
- enslavement,
- filching,
- fraud,
- graft,
- imitation,
- indent,
- infringement,
- infringement of copyright,
- invasion,
- liberation,
- lifting,
- literary piracy,
- mocking,
- occupation,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- piracy,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiarizing,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- poaching,
- preemption,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- requisition,
- scrounging,
- seizure,
- setting aside,
- shoplifting,
- simulation,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- subjugation,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- tagging,
- takeover,
- taking,
- taking over,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- usurpation