Appropriate | Meaning of appropriate

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appropriate (adjective)
Suitable or fit; proper.
The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

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

appropriate (verb)
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

appropriate (verb)
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
To appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

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January 24, 2019

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