Look up: Appropriation

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   Appropriation
   The decision to set aside money for research and development (R & D), by the government agency, or granting body which controls financial resources for R & D.
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   appropriation
   [n] - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose 2. [n] - a deliberate act of acquisition
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   appropriation
   The transfer of an asset (instead of its sale proceeds) on account of a legacy or share of residue
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   appropriation
   In law, the setting aside of money or other property to be applied exclusively to one use. In English civil law, a debtor who owes separate amounts to the same creditor is entitled when making a...
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   Appropriation
   The use of a pre-existing image(s) to form a new art work
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   Appropriation
   An amount of money made available by a governing body of a library or other agency for expenditure according to established budgetary and accounting practices
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   Appropriation
   As a term in art history and criticism refers to the more or less direct taking over into a work of art of a real object or even an existing work of art. The practice can be tracked back to the Cubist collages and constructions of Picasso and Georges Braque made from 1912 on, in which real objects such as newspapers were included to represent thems ...
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   appropriation
   a legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose. Category: Politics
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   Appropriation
   Ap·pro`pri·a'tion noun [ Latin appropriatio : confer French appropriation .] 1. 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. 2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. ...
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    appropriation
    noun a deliberate act of acquisition
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    appropriation
    noun money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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    Appropriation
    `Appropriation` is the act of taking possession of or assigning purpose to properties or ideas and is important in many topics, including: *Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge *Appropriation (art) **Appropriation (music) in reference to the re-use and proliferation of different types of music *Appropriation (economics) origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land *Appropriation (...
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    Appropriation
    • (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. • (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart. • (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, ...
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