| appropriation | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. appropriation | money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose. |
| ~ law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly | persons who make or amend or repeal laws. |
| ~ pork barrel, pork | a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents. |
| ~ money | the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender.; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" |
| n. (act) | 2. annexation, appropriation | incorporation by joining or uniting. |
| ~ incorporation | including by incorporating. |
| n. (act) | 3. appropriation | a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner.; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest" |
| ~ acquiring, getting | the act of acquiring something.; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" |
| ~ borrowing, adoption | the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source.; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent" |
| ~ pre-emption, preemption | a prior appropriation of something.; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests" |
| ~ seizure | the taking possession of something by legal process. |
| ~ requisition, sequestration | seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized. |
| ownership | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. ownership | the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others. |
| ~ relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. |
| ~ community | common ownership.; "they shared a community of possessions" |
| ~ severalty | exclusive individual ownership. |
| ~ property right | the legal right of ownership. |
| ~ proprietary, proprietorship | an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits. |
| ~ employee ownership | ownership of a business by the people who work for it. |
| ~ landholding | ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land. |
| ~ stockholding | ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock.; "prohibition of unrestricted intercorporate stockholding" |
| n. (act) | 2. ownership, possession | the act of having and controlling property. |
| ~ control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something.; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable" |
| ~ actual possession | (law) immediate and direct physical control over property. |
| ~ constructive possession | (law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it. |
| ~ criminal possession | (law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances. |
| ~ holding, retention, keeping | the act of retaining something. |
| n. (state) | 3. ownership | the state or fact of being an owner. |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| hi | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. hello, hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo | an expression of greeting.; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos" |
| ~ greeting, salutation | (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting). |
| n. (location) | 2. aloha state, hawai'i, hawaii, hi | a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands. |
| ~ dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi | large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii). |
| ~ lanai | a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room. |
| ~ uke, ukulele | a small guitar having four strings. |
| ~ hawaiian | the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii. |
| ~ luau | an elaborate Hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment). |
| ~ dolphinfish, mahimahi | the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii). |
| ~ haleakala national park | a national park in Hawaii including a dormant volcano. |
| ~ hawaii volcanoes national park | a national park in Hawaii featuring active volcanoes. |
| ~ american state | one of the 50 states of the United States. |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ hilo | a town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. |
| ~ hawaiian islands, sandwich islands | a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific. |
| ~ malahini | a newcomer to Hawaii. |
| ~ macadamia nut, macadamia nut tree, macadamia ternifolia | small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts. |
| it | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. information technology, it | the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information. |
| ~ applied science, engineering science, engineering, technology | the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems.; "he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study" |
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