Appropriation

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. n. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
4. n. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.