The appropriation is pin-money; it wouldn't be enough even to build a gym, much less build the administration building.
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Appropriation
//əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "appropriation" (84 found)
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Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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10 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- присвояване noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Danish
2 entries- bevilling noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
- gå med museskridt noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Dutch
1 entries- toe-eigening noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Finnish
1 entries- määräraha noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
German
1 entries- Aneignung noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Indonesian
3 entries- pembagian noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
- penyerobotan noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- peruntukan noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
Italian
1 entries- stanziamento noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
Māori
1 entries- muremurenga noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bevilgning noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
Portuguese
3 entries- apropriação noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- apropriação noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
- apropriação noun ((art) the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- aproprijacija noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- usvajanje noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Spanish
2 entries- apropiación noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- crédito de gasto presupuestario noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
Swedish
1 entries- anslag noun (public funds set aside for a specific purpose)
Turkish
1 entries- yağmacılık noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
Ukrainian
4 entries- привласнення noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- привласнювання noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- присвоювання noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
- присвоєння noun (act of appropriating, or something appropriated)
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Source: tatoeba (328012)
The ownership of women begins in the lower barbarian stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Source: tatoeba (678627)
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