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appropriation

Appropriation is a 13 letter word which starts with the letter A and ends with the letter N for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything especially money thus set apart.
(n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word appropriation is a 13 letter word that has 5 syllable 's . The syllable division for appropriation is: ap-pro-pri-a-tion


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