Appropriation

Appropriation may refer to:

• 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 (education)
• Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending
• Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
• Cultural appropriation, the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another
  • Reappropriation, use of a negative word or object by a member of the offended group, with a sense of pride.
• The personality rights tort of appropriation, one form of invasion of privacy
• Appropriation (By Any Other Name), by The Long Blondes (2005)

See also

• Appropriation Act
• Appropriation bill