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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Courts Director Robert Conrad will testify before an appropriations subcommittee this summer; members should question him about workplace conduct.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Senate appropriations rules prevented federal funding from naming Discovery, nor Texas as its final destination, but Sen. Ted Cruz believes Texas is the ideal spot because of Houston’s ties to space history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

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

From Slate • May 16, 2026

“Today, we find ourselves past the higher education committee and in appropriations once again.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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