Meaning | A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner. |
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Examples | - "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"
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Narrower | borrowing, adoption | The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source / source |
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preemption, pre-emption | A prior appropriation of something |
seizure | The taking possession of something by legal process |
sequestration, requisition | seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits / profits pay the demand for which it was seized |
Broader | acquiring, getting | The act of acquiring something |
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Spanish | apropiación |
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Catalan | apropiació |
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Adjectives | appropriative | of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself |
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