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What (who) is Appropriate - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Appropriations; Appropriate; Appropriated; Appropriator; Appropriators; Appropriates; Appropriating; Appropriation (disambiguation); Appropriate (disambiguation)
appropriate
I. v. a.
1.
Adopt, take to one's self, take as one's own, apply to one's own uses.
2.
Assign, apportion, allot, set apart, devote.
3.
Apply, use, employ, convert.
II. a.
Adapted, fit, fitting, befitting, apt, pat (colloq.), suitable, proper, becoming, due, seemly, agreeable, conformable, congruous, germane, convenient, pertinent, apposite, felicitous, applicable, apropos, to the point, to the purpose.
Appropriate
·noun A property; attribute.
II. Appropriate ·vt To make suitable; to Suit.
III. Appropriate ·vt To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
IV. Appropriate ·adj Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
V. Appropriate ·vt To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
VI. Appropriate ·vt To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;
- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
appropriate
I
adj.
1) appropriate for; to (appropriate for us; appropriate to the occasion)
2) appropriate to + inf. (it is not appropriate to tip a bus driver)
3) appropriate that + clause; subj. (it is appropriate that he be/ should be present)
II
v.
1) (B) Congress appropriated the funds to the states
2) (D; tr.) to appropriate for (the committee appropriated money for the memorial)
Wikipedia
Appropriation
Appropriate may refer to
- Appropriate (play), a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Appropriation may refer to:
- Appropriation (art) the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation
- Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending
- Appropriation of knowledge
- Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
- Appropriation (ecclesiastical) of the income of a benefice
- Cultural appropriation, the borrowing of an element of cultural expression of one group by another
- Reappropriation, the use with a sense of pride (of a negative word or object) by a member of the offended group
- Original appropriation, origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land
Other terms include:
- The personality rights tort of appropriation, one form of invasion of privacy
- Appropriation (By Any Other Name), by The Long Blondes (2005)
Examples of use of Appropriate
1. We take appropriate decisions at an appropriate time," CPI–M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said.
2. You may be able to embrace an appropriate technology or an appropriate use.
3. It is certainly an appropriate wage increase, but is this also an appropriate reform?
4. Appropriate Berri said: "The time now could be very appropriate to return to the peace negotiations.
5. She would have wanted the appropriate action to be taken by the appropriate authority."