- plural of appropriation.
appropriations
Example Sentences
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Even that request, after more than a year of negotiations, needs full congressional appropriations to turn into a final contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Navatek targeted the powerful members who sat on the House and Senate appropriations committees.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It cleared the Senate’s appropriations committee this month and heads to a Senate vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Lawmakers did put money toward new cool beds in the last supplemental appropriations bill.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was chair of the appropriations committee in the Utah House of Representatives, where he’d been first elected in 2000.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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