appropriation

Other forms of appropriation

plural

appropriations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appropriation

What does appropriation mean?

appropriation means "money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appropriation?

appropriation has 5 syllables: ap-pro-pri-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for appropriation?

Close synonyms include annexation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appropriation a common word?

appropriation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appropriation?

133 words rhyme with appropriation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.