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Appropriate   /əprˈoʊpriət/  /əprˈoʊpriˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Appropriate  adj.  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. "In its strict and appropriate meaning." "Appropriate acts of divine worship." "It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas."



verb
Appropriate  v. t.  (past & past part. appropriated; pres. part. appropriating)  
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
To make suitable; to suit. (Archaic)
4.
(Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.



noun
Appropriate  n.  A property; attribute. (Obs.)





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... across several of the principal streets, through which Lafayette was conducted, covered with evergreens and flowers, and containing appropriate mottos. There were two in Washington-street, the largest, and part of the distance, the widest street in the City.—On one of these was very legibly written—"1776—WASHINGTON and LAFAYETTE. Welcome Lafayette—A Republic not ungrateful." ...
— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette
 
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... characters, notably Priscilla, are to be found in the same experience. The life of the farmhouse, however, is not of sufficient interest in itself to hold attention very closely, and the socialistic experiment, after all, is not the theme of the story; these things merely afford a convenient and appropriate ground on which to develop a study of the typical reformer, as Hawthorne conceived him, the nature, trials, temptations, and indwelling fate of such a man; and to this task the author addressed himself. In the way in which ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
 
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... in the chest, please, Mr. Jephson) is better able to serve his country than the man who goes about in an old suit. The motto of our trade is Thrift with Taste. It was made up in our spring convention of five hundred members, in a four day sitting. We feel it to be (twenty-eight) very appropriate. Our feeling is that a gentleman wearing one of our thrift worsteds under one of our Win-the-War light overcoats (Mr. Jephson, please show that new Win-the-War overcoating) is really helping to ...
— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock
 
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... earnings. The economy has faltered over the past three years but will probably improve slightly in 2003. Former Prime Minister Mekere MORAUTA had tried to restore integrity to state institutions, stabilize the kina, restore stability to the national budget, privatize public enterprises where appropriate, and ensure ongoing peace on Bougainville. The government has had considerable success in attracting international support, specifically gaining the backing of the IMF and the World Bank in securing development assistance loans. Significant challenges face Prime Minister Michael SOMARE, including ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
 
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... act in concert; each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or the fondness of the parents; and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. Thus, some place their confidence in the father and some in the mother, and by degrees the house is filled with artifices ...
— Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia • Samuel Johnson
 
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