appropriation

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō. By surface analysis, appropriate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ap‧pro‧pri‧a‧tion

Noun

appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)

1. An act or instance of appropriating.
   • 2016 March 3, Jack Shenker, “Welcome to the land that no country wants”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 April 2020:

     Their ties to the area may be based on traditional rather than written claims – but Bir Tawil is not any more a “no man’s land” than the territory once known as British East Africa, where terra nullius was repeatedly invoked in the early 20th century by both chartered companies and the British government that supported them to justify the appropriation of territory from indigenous people.

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
• Indonesian: penyerobotan (id)
• Māori: 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)
• Indonesian: pembagian (id), peruntukan (id)
• 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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “appropriation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appropriātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Hyphenation: ap‧pro‧pri‧a‧tion

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