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Definition of Appropriation

Appropriation 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. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. 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. Related Definitions: Act, All, Anything, Apart, Application, Are, As, Assigning, Benefice, By, Carry, Corporation, Creditor, Debtor, Due, Especially, Exclusion, For, Former, From, Ground, His, In, Latter, Money, Object, Of, One, Or, Out, Park, Particular, Payment, Perpetual, Person, Piece, Purpose, Self, Sequestering, Set, Setting, Several, Severing, Some, Special, Spiritual, Taking, The, Thus, To, Use, Which

Appropriation Quotations Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. Christopher Lasch That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. Paul Hawken If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. Karl Jaspers Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. Phyllis Schlafly

Appropriation Translations appropriation in French is occupation, allocation, appropriation appropriation in German is Besitznahme {f}, Aneignung {f}

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