adjective. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.

transitive verb. To set apart for a specific use.

transitive verb. To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission.

Set apart for a particular use or person; hence, belonging peculiarly; suitable; fit; befitting; proper.

Synonyms Apt, becoming, in keeping, felicitous.

noun. Peculiar characteristic; attribute; proper function; property.

To take to one's self in exclusion of others; claim or use as by an exclusive right: as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

In general, to take for any use; put to use.

To set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use, in exclusion of all other purposes or uses: as, Congress appropriated more money than was needed; to appropriate a spot of ground for a garden.

In ecclesiastical law, to annex, as a benefice, to an ecclesiastical corporation, for its perpetual use.

noun. A property; attribute.

transitive verb. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.

transitive verb. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for

transitive verb. To make suitable; to suit.

transitive verb. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

adjective. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

adjective. Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

adjective. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

adjective. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

verb. To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.

verb. 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."

verb. 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.

verb. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

verb. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

adjective. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

verb. take possession of by force, as after an invasion

inappropriate  

ascribe  peculiar  

befitting  grade-appropriate  pat  proper  right  

appropriateness  

allot  assign  portion  

expropriate  misappropriate  

proper  specific  suitable  

a propos  absorb  abstract  acceptable  according to Hoyle  

appropriated  appropriates  appropriating