appropriation

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)

1. An act or instance of appropriating.
2. That which is appropriated.
3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
   • 1984 April 21, Christine Guilfoy, “Gay Lobby Hires New Executive Director”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

     Bush said that GRNL had lost touch with the grassroots, and as a result was unable to push legislation and lobby for higher appropriations for AIDS.

4. (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
5. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
6. In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
7. (constitutional law) The principle that supplies granted by a legislature are only to be expended in the manner specified by that legislature.

Hyponyms

• cultural appropriation

Derived terms

• appropriationist
• disappropriation
• malappropriation
• misappropriation
• nonappropriation
• reappropriation

 

Translations

act of appropriating, or something appropriated

• Bulgarian: присвояване (prisvojavane)
• Danish: gå med museskridt
• Dutch: toe-eigening f
• German: Aneignung (de) f
• Maori: muremurenga (by unfair or illegal means)
• Portuguese: apropriação (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: aproprijacija (sh) f, usvajanje (sh) n
• Spanish: apropiación (es) f
• Turkish: yağmacılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: привласнення n (pryvlasnennja), привласнювання n (pryvlasnjuvannja), присвоєння n (prysvojennja), присвоювання n (prysvojuvannja)

public funds set aside for a specific purpose

• Danish: bevilling c
• Finnish: määräraha (fi)
• Italian: stanziamento (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bevilgning m or f

• Portuguese: apropriação (pt) f
• Spanish: crédito de gasto presupuestario m
• Swedish: anslag (sv) n

(art) the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work

• Portuguese: apropriação (pt) f

(sociology) the assimilation of concepts into a governing framework

References

• “appropriation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• appropriation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “appropriation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From Latin appropriātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

appropriation f (plural appropriations)

1. appropriation

Related terms

• approprier

Further reading

• “appropriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.