Usually means: Unauthorized use of cultural elements.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word Appropriation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. appropriation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. appropriation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. appropriation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. appropriation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Appropriation, appropriation: Wordnik
  7. appropriation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. appropriation: Wiktionary
  9. appropriation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. appropriation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. appropriation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. appropriation: Dictionary.com
  13. appropriation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Appropriation (art), Appropriation (economics), Appropriation (law), Appropriation (sociology), Appropriation (visual art), Appropriation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Appropriation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. appropriation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. appropriation: Rhymezone
  18. Appropriation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. appropriation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. appropriation: Free Dictionary
  21. appropriation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. appropriation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. appropriation: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. appropriation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Appropriation: Glossary of Military Spending
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Appropriation: Investopedia
  8. appropriation: Legal dictionary
  9. appropriation: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Appropriation: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See appropriations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (appropriation)

noun:  An act or instance of appropriating.
noun:  That which is appropriated.
noun:  Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
noun:  (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
noun:  (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
noun:  In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
noun:  (constitutional law) The principle that supplies granted by a legislature are only to be expended in the manner specified by that legislature.

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