Word info

appropriation bill

Noun

Meaning

a legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Authoritative word did not reach Wriedt until 2.15 pm, by which time it was too late to withdraw the motion and instead obstruct his party's appropriation bill to hinder Fraser. Source: Internet

Eskom has failed to meet some of the conditions attached to the R59bn it received from the government last year to service its debt through the special appropriation bill. Source: Internet

The federal government yesterday said that the proposed 2021 budget as submitted to the National Assembly would not be recalled amid calls to tinker with the appropriation bill as the country plunges into another recession. Source: Internet

If the January-December budget calendar is anything to go by, the president has between today and Thursday, to assent to the appropriation bill. Source: Internet

In January 1934, Senator Bennett Champ Clark and Representative John Cochran introduced to Congress an appropriation bill seeking $30 million for the memorial, but the bill failed to garner support due to the large amount of money solicited. Source: Internet

A good portion of it was spent debating the supplementary appropriation bill – basically an accounting of how the government spent 44 million dollars in Petrocaribe Funds in the last three months of 2015. Source: Internet

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