Look up: appropriation

1. Appropriation
   [No. 2] A Sindarin approximation of the phrase "Articles I have written", written in Tengwar. ...
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2. Appropriation
   [economics] Appropriation is a non-violent process by which previously unowned natural resources, particularly land, become the property of a person or group of persons. The term is widely used in economics in this sense. In certain cases, it proceeds under very specifically defined forms, s...
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3. Appropriation
   [law] In law and government, appropriation (from Latin appropriare, "to make one`s own", later "to set aside") is the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage, to the exclusion of all other uses. It typically refers to the legislative designation of money for ...
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4. Appropriation
   [music] In music, appropriation is the use of borrowed elements (aspects or techniques) in the creation of a new piece, and is an example of cultural appropriation. Appropriation may be thought of as one of the placement of elements in new context, as for Gino Stefani who "makes appropriatio...
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5. 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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6. appropriation
   [n] - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose 2. [n] - a deliberate act of acquisition
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7. appropriation
   The transfer of an asset (instead of its sale proceeds) on account of a legacy or share of residue
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8. 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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9. Appropriation
   The use of a pre-existing image(s) to form a new art work
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10. 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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11. 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 s...
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12. appropriation
    a legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose. Category: Politics
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13. 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 u...
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14. appropriation
    noun a deliberate act of acquisition
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15. appropriation
    noun money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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16. 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...
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17. Appropriation
    [sociology] Appropriation in sociology is, according to James J. Sosnoski, "the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework...[the] arrogation, confiscation, [or] seizure of concepts." According to Tracy B Strong it contains the Latin root proprius, which, "carries the connotations n...
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18. Appropriation
    The application of the payment of a sum of money, made by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts.
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19. Appropriation
    [art] Appropriation is a fundamental aspect in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical). Appropriation can be understood as "the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work." In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (...
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20. Appropriation
    [By Any Other Name] "Appropriation (By Any Other Name)" was a 7" and CD release by Sheffield band The Long Blondes. It was released on June 13, 2005 on Angular Records. The song is a homage to Hitchcock`s 1958 film Vertigo. it has been said that this song is told from the point of view of Ju...
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21. Appropriation
    [disambiguation] ==Licensing== ...
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22. Appropriation
    [education] Appropriation is the process of constructing knowledge from social and cultural sources, and integrating it into pre-existing schemas. It is a developmental process that comes about through socially formulated, goal-directed, and tool-mediated actions. Appropriation draws on the ...
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