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appropriationsnounpl. of appropriation a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal actionthe National Park Service received an increased appropriation for wildlife management allocations, allotments, annuities, entitlements, grants, subsidies, subventions aids, assistances, block grants, grants-in-aid, set-asidesforeign aids, reliefs, state aidsadvances, allowances, benefits, bequests, endowments, funds, legacies, stipends, trust funds, trusts the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritythe insurgents' appropriation of the house for their headquarters arrogations, detainers, expropriations, preemptions, seizures, takeovers, usurpations annexations, assumptions, attachments, confiscations, grabs, impoundments, repossessions, sequestrationsdefalcations, embezzlements, misapplications, misappropriations, misuses, peculations, theftsdespoilmentsencroachments, infringements, piraciesinvasions, occupancies, occupations, preoccupancies, trespassesdeforcements, disfurnishments, dispossessions, ejections |