appropriating
Claiming for oneself
Appropriating is taking something for one's own use, often without permission or right.
Governments appropriate funds by setting aside money for specific purposes: Congress appropriated $50 million for disaster relief.
The more contentious sense involves adopting elements from another culture: Critics accused her of appropriating Indigenous traditions.
This cultural appropriation debate centers on whether such borrowing constitutes theft, homage, or something in between.
Legally seizing property
- usurpingSeizing without authority
- annexingIncorporating territory by force
- commandeeringSeizing by force or authority
- takingAct of acquiring
capturing · encroaching · requisitioning · dispossessing · wresting · claiming · arrogating · co-opting
Act of acquiring
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
- usingPutting into service
- incorporatingAdding as a component
- adaptingModifying to suit conditions
repurposing · claiming · assuming · embracing · utilizing · employing · applying · integrating
Temporary taking of another's
- copyingReproducing something exactly
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- co-optingAbsorbing into one's cause
- adoptingTaking as one's own
imitating · commodifying · stereotyping · misrepresenting · exoticizing · fetishizing · plagiarizing · mimicking
Allocating funds systematically
- distributingApportioning among recipients
- allottingDistributing in shares
- assigningDesignating for a purpose
- apportioningDividing into shares
earmarking · designating · reserving · dedicating · setting aside · partitioning · provisioning · disbursing
Supplying monetary resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
subsidies · authorization · expenditure · fiscal · treasury · congressional · governmental · bills
confiscating
Legally seizing property
- usurpingSeizing without authority
- annexingIncorporating territory by force
- commandeeringSeizing by force or authority
taking · capturing · encroaching · requisitioning · dispossessing · wresting · claiming · arrogating · co-opting · hijacking
taking
Act of acquiring
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
- usingPutting into service
- incorporatingAdding as a component
adapting · repurposing · claiming · assuming · embracing · utilizing · employing · applying · integrating · absorbing
borrowing
Temporary taking of another's
- copyingReproducing something exactly
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- co-optingAbsorbing into one's cause
adopting · imitating · commodifying · stereotyping · misrepresenting · exoticizing · fetishizing · plagiarizing · mimicking · extracting
budgeting
Allocating funds systematically
- distributingApportioning among recipients
- allottingDistributing in shares
- assigningDesignating for a purpose
apportioning · earmarking · designating · reserving · dedicating · setting aside · partitioning · provisioning · disbursing · rationing
funding
Supplying monetary resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- spendingOutlaying of funds
grants · subsidies · authorization · expenditure · fiscal · treasury · congressional · governmental · bills · statutes
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
- distributingdistributing, dispensing, allocating, apportioning, doling out
appropriatinggiving
Transferring to another
bestowing · donating · returning · granting · relinquishing
appropriatingrejecting
Refusing to accept
refusing · declining · spurning · renouncing · turning down
appropriatingrespecting
About; on the topic
honoring · acknowledging · crediting · attributing · leaving alone
- cultural appropriationMisusing another group's traditions
- appropriations billLegislation authorizing government expenditures
- culturally appropriatingAdopting elements from marginalized groups
- appropriations committeeLegislative panel allocating funds
appropriation, misappropriation, appropriations, misappropriating, reappropriation