Appropriation

Ap·pro·pri·a·tion

Appropriation

n.
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
  2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
    The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation.
  3. The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (Law)