appropriation
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The assumption of the rights of an owner over property, a key element of theft.
Switching the price labels amounted to an appropriation of the goods, even before he reached the till.
Business noun
Money set aside by legislation for a particular public purpose.
The defence appropriation cleared the chamber only after weeks of horse-trading.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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