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APPROPRIATION BILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("appropriation bill" is a kind of...):
bill; measure (a statute in draft before it becomes law)
Meronyms (parts of "appropriation bill"):
line item (an item in an appropriation bill)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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