APPROPRIATE
\ɐpɹˈə͡ʊpɹɪət], \ɐpɹˈəʊpɹɪət], \ɐ_p_ɹ_ˈəʊ_p_ɹ_ɪ__ə_t]\
Definitions of APPROPRIATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"
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suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"
By Princeton University
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give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"
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suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
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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.
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To make suitable; to suit.
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To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
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A property; attribute.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
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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.
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To make suitable; to suit.
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To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
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A property; attribute.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To take to oneself, in exclusion of others; set apart for a particular use; as, the government appropriated money for good roads.
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Fit; suitable; proper.
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Appropriately.
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Appropriateness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Appropriately.
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Appropriateness.
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To take to one's self as one's own: to set apart for a purpose.
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Set apart for a particular purpose: peculiar: suitable.
By Daniel Lyons
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Appropriately.
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Appropriateness.
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To set apart for a particular use; assign.
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To take for a particular use; assign.
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To take for one's own use; make use of.
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Suitable for the person, circumstance, place, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To set apart for a particular use; to claim or use as by right; to apply to one's own use.
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Limited or set apart to a particular person or use; fit; suitable.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Peculiar, consigned to some particular.
By Thomas Sheridan
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