1. (legislature) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
   "The state legislature approved an appropriation for road improvements"
    
2. 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"
    
3. Incorporation by joining or uniting
   "The appropriation of unclaimed land by the government was controversial";
   - annexation

Derived forms: appropriations

Type of: acquiring, boodle [informal], brass [Brit, informal], bread [informal], cabbage [US, informal], clams [US, informal], coin [US, informal], dibs [archaic, informal], dinero [N. Amer, informal], dosh [Brit, informal], dough [informal], gelt [informal], getting, incorporation, kale [US, informal], lettuce [US, informal], lolly [Brit, informal], loot [informal], lucre [informal], mazuma [US, informal], money, moola [N. Amer, informal], moolah [N. Amer, informal], pelf [archaic, informal], scratch [informal], shekels [informal], simoleons [US, informal], spondulicks [Brit, informal], spondulix [Brit, informal], sugar [informal], wampum [N. Amer, informal], wonga [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Appropriation