appropriation

Meanings

1. An act or instance of appropriating.
2. That which is appropriated.
3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
4. The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
5. The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
6. In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
7. The principle that supplies granted by a legislature are only to be expended in the manner specified by that legislature.

Etymology

From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō. By surface analysis, appropriate + -ion.