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n. The act of appropriating.

n. Something appropriated, especially public funds set aside for a specific purpose.

n. A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.

n. An act or instance of appropriating

n. That which is appropriated

n. public funds set aside for a specific purpose

n. the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work

n. the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework

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.

n. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

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n. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

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.

n. The act of appropriating, setting apart, or assigning to a particular use or person in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose; specifically, an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a special use.

n. Anything appropriated or set apart for a special purpose, as money.

n. . Acquisition; addition.

n. In law: The annexing or setting apart of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation.

n. The determining to which of several debts a sum of money paid shall be applied.

n. money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

n. incorporation by joining or uniting

n. a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner

"Artists have, of course, been sticky-fingered for ages, long before the term "appropriation art" was ushered into the lexicon to describe the Pictures Generation."

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