appropriations

NOUN

allocation, setting aside

Synonyms

STRONGEST

allotment allowance donation funding grant provision stipend subsidy

STRONG

apportionment assignment concession giving stipulation

WEAK

budgeting earmarking endowing setting apart sponsoring

Antonyms

WEAK

bestowal keeping refusal rejection return

NOUN

stealing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

confiscation embezzlement expropriation misappropriation

STRONG

grab seizure takeover taking usurpation

WEAK

pilfering

Antonyms

WEAK

bestowal giving keeping refusal rejection return

Example Sentences

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And there was an incident this week while McConnell was chairing his defense appropriations subcommittee hearing.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

But Ward’s effort to revive his program last year failed to pass the Assembly appropriations committee.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

An estimated 61,197 TSA employees, out of its 64,130 total, will either work without pay or get paid with resources other than annual appropriations, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

No ICE officials testified at Wednesday’s congressional appropriations hearings.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

He was chair of the appropriations committee in the Utah House of Representatives, where he’d been first elected in 2000.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel