Appropriation

[ə,prəʊprɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [ə,proprɪ'eʃən]

解释:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose.

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解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

(n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

(n.) 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.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Seizure, capture, taking, taking to one's self.[2]. Application (to a particular use).[3]. Sum set apart (for a specific object).

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