appropriated adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain" [syn: condemned, confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over]

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appropriated

1. past of appropriate

Appropriation is the act of taking possession of or assigning purpose to properties or ideas and is important in many topics, including:

• Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
• Appropriation (art)
  • Appropriation (music) in reference to the re-use and proliferation of different types of music
• Appropriation (economics) origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land
• Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending
• Cultural appropriation is the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another.
• The tort of appropriation is one form of invasion of privacy.