Appropriation may refer to:
- Appropriation (art)
- 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 (education)
- Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending
- Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
- Cultural appropriation, the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another
- Reappropriation, use of a negative word or object by a member of the offended group, with a sense of pride.
- The personality rights tort of appropriation, one form of invasion of privacy
- Appropriation (By Any Other Name), by The Long Blondes (2005)