[がいさんようきゅう, gaisanyoukyuu] (n) request for budgetary appropriations [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Appropriation \Ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F.
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.
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2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
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The Commons watched carefully over the
appropriation. --Macaulay.
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3. (Law)
(a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
(b) 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. --Chitty.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
appropriation
n 1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific
purpose
2: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: {annexation},
{appropriation}]
3: a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without
the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were
obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's
operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property
belonging to another is dishonest"
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