Look up: appropriation

1. 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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2. appropriation
   [n] - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose 2. [n] - a deliberate act of acquisition
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3. appropriation
   The transfer of an asset (instead of its sale proceeds) on account of a legacy or share of residue
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4. 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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5. Appropriation
   The use of a pre-existing image(s) to form a new art work
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6. 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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7. 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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8. appropriation
   a legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose. Category: Politics
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9. 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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10. appropriation
    noun a deliberate act of acquisition
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11. appropriation
    noun money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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...
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15. 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 approp...
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16. 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 legislati...
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17. 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, ...
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