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appropriationnoun a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal actionthe National Park Service received an increased appropriation for wildlife management allocation, allotment, annuity, entitlement, grant, subsidy, subvention aid, assistance, block grant, grant-in-aid, set-asideforeign aid, relief, state aidadvance, allowance, benefit, bequest, endowment, fund, legacy, stipend, trust, trust fund the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritythe insurgents' appropriation of the house for their headquarters arrogation, commandeering, detainer, expropriation, preemption, seizure, takeover, usurpation annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestrationdefalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theftdespoilment, looting, pillagingencroachment, infringement, piracyinvasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespassdeforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping in the 14th century |