English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Result for Appropriation
Appropriation
(n.)
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.
Appropriation
(n.)
Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
Appropriation
(n.)
The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
Appropriation
(n.)
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.