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'Appropriation' is the act of taking possession of or assigning purpose to properties or ideas and is important in many topics, including:

★ Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge

★ Appropriation (art)

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★ Appropriation (music) in reference to the re-use and proliferation of different types of music

★ Appropriation (economics) origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land

★ Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending

★ Appropriation (Catholicism) [1]

★ Cultural appropriation is the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another.

★ The tort of appropriation is one form of invasion of privacy.