Ap-prō'pri-ā'tion, n.
n. [Lat. appropriatio, Fr. appropriation.]
Sense 1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground, for a park, of a right to one's self, of words to ideas, or of money to carry out some public object.
Sense 2. Any thing, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.
Sense 3. (Law.) (a.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation, sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living. Blackstone. (b.) The application of the payment of a sum of money, by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.