English English Dictionary
Result for Appropriate
Appropriate
(a.)
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Appropriate
(v. t.)
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.
Appropriate
(v. t.)
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
(v. t.)
To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriate
(v. t.)
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Appropriate
(n.)
A property; attribute.