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Word: appropriate
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- obsolete Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
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Verb:
- archaic To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.
- British|ecclesiastical|legal To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
- transitive 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.
- transitive 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."
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