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appropriation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

appropriationn. [L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Anything, especially money, thus set apart.  [1913 Webster]
    "The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.  Chitty.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

appropriation

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

ROGET THESAURUS

appropriation

Apportionment

N apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment, appropriation, dispensation, distribution, division, deal, repartition, partition, administration, dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose, dole, meed, pittance, quantum, ration, ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance, suerte, apportioning, respective, respectively, each to each.

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.


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