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Word Meanings - APPROPRIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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.

Additional info about word: APPROPRIATION

1. 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. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay. 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. Chitty.

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  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • APPROPRIATION
    1. 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.
  • IMPROPRIATION
    1. The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated. The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation. A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • SUBTRACTION
    The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • COYNESS
    The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. Syn. -- Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty; bashfulness.
  • MODESTY
    1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
  • SEIZURE
    1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
  • SHYNESS
    The quality or state of being shy. Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter. Syn. -- Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness.
  • WITHHOLD
    1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
  • MONOPOLY
    1. The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor
  • PREOCCUPANCY
    The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.
  • PRIVILEGE
    See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment
  • PRIVILEGED
    Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
  • WITHHOLDMENT
    The act of withholding.
  • ABSTRACTIONAL
    Pertaining to abstraction.
  • RESERVATION
    1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
  • EXCLUSIVENESS
    Quality of being exclusive.
  • ABDUCTION
    The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (more info) 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
  • DELIMITATION
    The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
  • ILLIMITATION
    State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
  • UNRESTRAINT
    Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.

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