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appropriations

noun as in allocation, setting aside

noun as in stealing

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The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, projected $588 billion in defense appropriations in 2014 to $731 billion in 2023.

The draft of the State Department and foreign operations appropriations bill contains the other $1 billion.

The draft of the defense appropriations bill would give the Pentagon $4 billion of the funds.

Appropriations bills are supposed to be passed in September to keep the government running.

He had a history of reducing spending when he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

The income of the school fund has been three times used as a means of increasing the appropriations in the towns.

In 1897 a heavy cut in our appropriations made it necessary to consider every possible method of retrenchment.

It was supported by government appropriations and private philanthropy.

To these collections large additions have been made, at first mostly by gifts, but later by regular appropriations.

Such appropriations were used mainly for testing timber strength and the conditions affecting quality.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to appropriations, such as: funding, grant, stipend, subsidy, donation, and allotment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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