appropriations

(noun)

In law and government, appropriation (from Latin appropriare, "to make one's own," later "to set aside") is the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage to the exclusion of all other uses. It typically refers to the legislative designation of money for particular uses in the context of a budget or spending bill.

Related Terms

Examples of appropriations in the following topics:

  • Authorization and Appropriation

    • The separation of authorization and appropriation functions are enforced through House and Senate rules that divide committee jurisdiction between authorization and appropriations bills .
    • Points of order also prohibit certain provisions in appropriations measures.
    • For instance, the House and Senate prohibit language in appropriations bills that provides appropriations not authorized by law, also known as unauthorized appropriations.
    • In reality, the separation between authorization and appropriation measures is imperfect.
    • Other authorized programs receive no appropriated funds at all.

  • Student Learning Outcomes

  • Student Learning Outcomes

  • Conflicts

    • Destruction, mislabeling, appropriation and repossession can contribute to conflicts surrounding the preservation of art.
    • Plunder, appropriation, and spoilation are related terms that describe the process of looting.
    • However, after that time is up, the work of art might be appropriated and used by others thereby creating conflict.
    • The internet has further complicated issues surrounding ownership and appropriation especially in art.
    • "L.H.O.O.Q. " is an example of appropriation deemed acceptable in art.

  • Budget Resolutions

    • The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriations process and provides Congress with some control over the process.
    • Even though the budget resolution covers at least five fiscal years, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations receive allocations only for the upcoming fiscal year because appropriations measures are annual.
    • After the appropriations committees receive their spending ceilings, they are responsible for dividing the amount among their respective subcommittees.
    • Instead, the budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriations process and provides Congress with some control over this process.
    • The Congressional Budget Act also prohibits House and Senate floor consideration of appropriations measures for the upcoming fiscal year before the budget resolution is completed.

  • The Role of the Federal Budget

    • Appropriations subcommittees then approve individual appropriations bills to allocate funding to various federal programs.
    • If Congress fails to pass an annual budget, a series of appropriations bills must be passed as "stop gap" measures.
    • Congress may also combine all or some appropriations bills into an omnibus reconciliation bill.
    • In addition, the president may request and the Congress may pass supplemental appropriations bills or emergency supplemental appropriations bills.
    • If it cannot pass a Federal Budget, it must pass appropriation bills as a "stop gap. "

  • The Cost of Maintaining the Government

    • Budget resolutions specify funding levels for appropriations committees and subcommittees.
    • Once appropriations committees pass their bills, the House and Senate consider them.
    • In recent years, Congress has not passed all of the appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year.
    • The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriation process and provides Congress with some control over the appropriations process.
    • Authorizations for many programs have long lapsed, yet still receive appropriated amounts.

  • Dr. Miller's Pharmacy Class

    • Even though they finally learned to use patients' situations to suggest the appropriate dosages to their teams and work professionally with doctors and nurses during the rotation program, they struggled to get through.
    • She assigns students to groups of five and has them discuss the appropriate medication and the appropriate doses of the suggested medications based on patients' situations.
    • After students clearly identify the patients' state, they begin to identify resources online and from professional journals for the appropriate therapy.
    • In the next class, students suggest not only the appropriate medication and the reasonable dosage for each patient, but also describe their rationales for the medication they suggested.
    • Miller thinks that with case-based learning, her students are more engaged in the process of examining patients' cases and suggesting appropriate medications to the doctors.

  • The Importance of Wording

    • Establishing the proper tone, choosing appropriate words, and using varied sentence structures appropriately can improve academic writing.
    • Writing with variety can aid in developing the appropriate tone and hold your reader's attention.
    • In academic writing, it's important to maintain an appropriate tone throughout.

  • Gas Requirements

    • Cells are grown and maintained at an appropriate temperature and gas mixture of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen in a cell incubator.
    • Cells are grown and maintained at an appropriate temperature and gas mixture (typically, 37°C and a mixture of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen) in a cell incubator .
    • Cells are grown and maintained at an appropriate temperature and gas mixture of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen in a cell incubator.