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appropriate
—appropriately, adv. —appropriateness, n. —appropriative /euh proh"pree ay'tiv, -euh tiv/, adj. —appropriativeness, n. —appropriator, n.
adj. /euh proh"pree it/; v. /euh proh"pree ayt'/, adj., v., appropriated, appropriating.
adj.
1. suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
2. belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
v.t.
3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft.
[1515-25; < LL appropriatus made one's own (ptp. of appropriare), equiv. to L ap- AP-1 + propri(us) one's own + -atus -ATE1]
Syn. 1. befitting, apt, meet, felicitous, suited, proper, due, becoming, pertinent. 3. apportion, allocate, assign.
Ant. 1. unsuitable, inept.

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