Appropriation (law)
Government setting something, especially money, aside for a particular purpose / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In law and government, appropriation (from Latin appropriare, "to make one's own", later "to set aside") is the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage, to the exclusion of all other uses.
It typically refers to the legislative designation of money for particular uses, in the context of a budget or spending bill.