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All appropriation synonyms

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noun appropriation

  • funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
  • subsidy — a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
  • donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
  • allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
  • provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
  • confiscation — to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
  • misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
  • giving — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
  • concession — If you make a concession to someone, you agree to let them do or have something, especially in order to end an argument or conflict.
  • apportionment — the act of apportioning
  • stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
  • taking — the act of taking.
  • usurpation — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
  • grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
  • seizure — the act or an instance of seizing.
  • takeover — the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.
  • budgeting — financial planning
  • sponsoring — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
  • pilfering — stealing, petty theft
  • assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
  • arrogation — to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right: to arrogate the right to make decisions.
  • annexation — the act of annexing, esp territory, or the condition of being annexed
  • adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
  • stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
  • allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
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