appropriation
app·rop·ria·tion
noun
2.
incorporation by joining or uniting
3.
a deliberate act of acquisition
Origin
From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō. By surface analysis, appropriate + -ion.
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