APPROPRIATION BILL

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 I. (noun) 

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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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