Definitions for appropriation
əˌproʊ priˈeɪ ʃənap·pro·pri·a·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. appropriationnoun

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

2. annexation, appropriationnoun

   incorporation by joining or uniting

3. appropriationnoun

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. appropriationnoun

   An act or instance of appropriating

2. appropriationnoun

   That which is appropriated

3. appropriationnoun

   public funds set aside for a specific purpose

4. appropriationnoun

   the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work

5. appropriationnoun

   the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Appropriationnoun

   Etymology: from appropriate.

   1. The application of something to a particular purpose.

   The mind should have distinct ideas of the things, and retain the particular name, with its peculiar appropriation to that idea. John Locke.

   2. The claim of any thing as peculiar.

   He doth nothing but talk of his horse, and make a great appropriation to his good parts, that he can shoe him himself. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   3. The fixing a particular signification to a word.

   The name of faculty may, by an appropriation that disguises its true sense, palliate the absurdity. John Locke.

   4.In law, a severing of a benefice ecclesiastical to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, or dean, and chapter, bishoprick, or college; because, as persons ordinarily have no right of see simple, these, by reason of their perpetuity, are accounted owners of the see simple; and therefore are called proprietors. To an appropriation, after the licence obtained of the king in chancery, the consent of the diocesan, patron, and incumbent, are necessary, if the church be full: but if the church be void, the diocesan and the patron, upon the king’s licence, may conclude. John Cowell

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1. appropriation

   Appropriation is the act of taking something, typically without the permission or consent of the owner, and using it for one's own purposes. This may be in relation to property, funds, ideas, culture, art, or other entities. It can carry legal, economic, or cultural implications, often related to issues of ownership and rights.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Appropriationnoun

   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

2. Appropriationnoun

   anything, especially money, thus set apart

3. Appropriationnoun

   the severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone

4. Appropriationnoun

   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

5. Etymology: [L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation.]

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1. Appropriation

   Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts. Appropriation can be understood as "the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work." In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of man-made visual culture. Most notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Other strategies include "re-vision, re-evaluation, variation, version, interpretation, imitation, proximation, supplement, increment, improvisation, prequel... pastiche, paraphrase, parody, homage, mimicry, shan-zhai, echo, allusion, intertextuality and karaoke." The term appropriation refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work or refers to the new work itself. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualises whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.

Matched Categories

1. • Acquiring
   • Incorporation
   • Legislature
   • Money

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How to pronounce appropriation?

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How to say appropriation in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of appropriation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of appropriation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of appropriation in a Sentence

1. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   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.

2. Katia Cytryn-Silverman:

   The fact that this is the one chosen for a top step is also challenging for our modern mind: was this a positive or negative appropriation of the menorah? were they stepping on purpose? Did the room serve a special function? Were the inhabitants of the house actually aware of its importance? Was this just a beautiful ornamented piece? While these questions are still hard to answer, the very use [of the door] at this place, and our eventual exposure, revived its long trajectory, going fromJewish hands, to Muslim, and then to Christian owners.

3. Taryn Fenske:

   Senator Pizzo never misses an opportunity for his 15 minutes of fame and is challenging an action on an appropriation he voted for.

4. Illinois House:

   This is one of the things that he complained about as a candidate, it’s easy enough for the governor to [instead] come in before the legislature and say ‘I’d like to increase the size of the appropriation in the governor’s office because I want to hire people that I think are qualified, and I’d like to pay them an appropriate salary.’.

5. Peyton Reed:

   It's just such a great metaphor. They have built their entire reputation on the backs of someone else's hard work, cultural appropriation has always been a thing from Elvis, The Beatles and everybody who, as [ Isis ] says, is' putting blonde hair on it and calling it something different.'.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=appropriation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appropriation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=appropriation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appropriation
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=appropriation
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=appropriation