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appropriate [ a·p·p·r·o·p·ri·ate ]
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1. Suitable or proper in the circumstances.
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1. Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
Look, a rich man usually appropriates land as he wishes.
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2. Devote (money or assets) to a special purpose.
there can be problems in appropriating funds for legal expenses
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1. Late Middle English from late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare ‘make one's own’, from ad- ‘to’ + proprius ‘own, proper’.
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