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Definition of appropriate in English: appropriateadjective əˈprəʊprɪətəˈproʊpriət Suitable or proper in the circumstances. this isn't the appropriate time or place a measure appropriate to a wartime economy Example sentencesExamples - Given the title, it may be appropriate to consider the semiology of it all.
- Cook with spices that are appropriate for the season and for your skin and your physiology.
- In this particular case I made the decision that it was not appropriate to do that.
- A conditional discharge would be appropriate for the offences in all the circumstances.
- As I prepare to leave Scotland for a while, it seems appropriate to focus on some of those bigger issues.
- Speed must be appropriate for the conditions, the size and type of vessel, and the safety of others in the area.
- But it still wouldn't be appropriate to make a big deal of the fact that I have a famous father.
- Until the cause was known, he said it would not be appropriate to comment.
- But it is important to make sure the play programme is appropriate to the child.
- It would certainly not be appropriate to grant a stay in these circumstances.
- In this circumstance it is appropriate to depend upon a set of rules for swift action.
- But he said it would not be appropriate to release further details of the schemes at this stage.
- I concluded that it would not be appropriate to do so, having regard to all the circumstances.
- It's appropriate to apologise when you've been wrong but re-writing the past is not an option.
- Some content during this event may not be appropriate for all audiences.
- The state, apparently, is to decide what material is appropriate for academic inquiry.
- In those circumstances we say it is appropriate for costs to follow the event.
- A spokesman for the railway said the company didn't feel it was appropriate to comment at this stage.
- This may be appropriate for patients who are not suitable for anticoagulation.
- I felt it was entirely appropriate to honour my adopted country in my new hometown.
Synonyms suitable, proper, fitting, apt relevant, connected, pertinent, apposite, applicable, germane, material, significant, right, congruous, to the point, to the purpose convenient, expedient, favourable, auspicious, propitious, opportune, felicitous, timely, well judged, well timed seemly, befitting, deserved Latin ad rem formal appurtenant archaic meet, seasonable
verb əˈprəʊprɪeɪtəˈproʊpriˌeɪt [with object]1Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. the accused had appropriated the property Example sentencesExamples - The two were astonishingly productive, and some of the most noted men of the day were accused of appropriating their ideas.
- It's these same bookish types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media.
- So the Portuguese fled, and the Walanda installed themselves in the one and only town on the island, appropriating the buildings and the possessions of the enemy.
- Novels and the popular press eventually appropriated this image.
- This work illustrates her recent turn from appropriating photojournalistic images and portraits, toward obscuring the body.
- This bifurcation decays and falls to pieces when productive labor, in its totality. appropriates the special characteristics of the performing artist.
- Because it was university property, appropriating the sign had to be an undercover job.
- I can see appropriating certain aspect of a ‘well-know’ designer, such as yourself, but only if there is some kind of conceptual connection.
- Look, a rich man usually appropriates land as he wishes.
- A user can be someone who appropriates the history, image, or reputation of a work of architecture for his own ends.
- Has anybody taken our New Wave of abstract artists to task for appropriating aboriginal art?
- He filched my material and appropriated my voice and exploited a human tragedy that was really none of his business.
- Newspapers should not roll over before a seven-year-old church as it appropriates titles from others that carry the weight of history.
- Stealing appropriates the fruits of someone else's labor without his permission.
- By appropriating the fashion of the northwest outdoors, the designers took cycling out of the alternative-lifestyle gutter into the mainstream traffic of contemporary living.
- Neo-modernism simply appropriates images and technology while forsaking old hopes and old ideas of the social.
- Thus the monstrous seizer of antiquity was appropriated as a Christian image of seduction and then of penitence and remorse.
- ‘When politics appropriates art, it is transformed into an object that is emptied of its meaning,’ he said.
- Fiction is thus a way of appropriating the world, giving the world the color, the taste, the sense, the dreams, the vigils, the perseverance and even the lazy repose that, to go on being, it claims.
- The accompanying images were appropriated from films and video but share certain visual qualities.
Synonyms seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequestrate, sequester, take possession of, take over, assume, secure, acquire, wrest, usurp, claim, lay claim to, hijack steal, take, misappropriate thieve, pilfer, pocket, purloin, make off with embezzle informal swipe, nab, rip off, lift, filch, snaffle, snitch, bag, walk off/away with, ‘abstract’, ‘borrow’, ‘liberate’ British informal pinch, nick, half-inch, whip, knock off rare peculate, defalcate plagiarize, copy, reproduce poach, steal, ‘borrow’, bootleg, infringe the copyright of informal pirate, rip off, crib, lift 2Devote (money or assets) to a special purpose. there can be problems in appropriating funds for legal expenses Example sentencesExamples - If the company were forced into bankruptcy or left open to a major claim, the personal assets of the directors could be appropriated to pay off creditors.
- Has it subsequently been appropriated for other purposes?
- His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today.
- It turned out that there were three guest bathrooms, each with similarly elegant appointments, so even with Clara appropriating one for her private use sufficient cleaning capacity remained for the boys.
- If Parliament appropriates money for a purpose and the achievement of that purpose happens to involve doing something which may also represent the interests of a political party that is just not a disqualification.
- After the war, Congress appropriated more money to harbor defense.
- They have appropriated sophisticated 3D modeling software technology for the purpose.
- This makes Homeland a money magnet, one of the rare federal agencies for which Congress appropriates more funds than the president seeks.
- Third, additional funds will be appropriated for the support of public television and public radio.
- What the figures on executive compensation show is how much social wealth the tiny elite appropriates for their personal bank accounts.
- He doesn't seem to come into and fall out of fashion as much as he is simply appropriated for new purposes with each generation.
- Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during the odd-numbered years.
- We are debating important issues this afternoon - the $50 million - odd that this Parliament appropriates for Treasury to advise the Government.
- He prefers the money to be appropriated for tax cuts for the upper bracket.
- As of September 2004, no funds have been appropriated for the implementation of this Act.
- Seaports asked for three times the amount of money that the Congress appropriated for port security.
- The state Department of Health currently appropriates $500,000 in federal funding to six contractors who provide abstinence programs in nine counties throughout the state.
- If the bank knows that a given sum or item has been appropriated for a specific purpose, the right of set-off cannot be exercised in respect of it.
Synonyms allocate, assign, allot, earmark, set apart/aside, devote, apportion, budget
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare 'make one's own', from ad- 'to' + proprius 'own, proper'. Rhymes expropriate, impropriate, misappropriate Definition of appropriate in US English: appropriateadjectiveəˈproʊpriətəˈprōprēət Suitable or proper in the circumstances. a measure appropriate to a wartime economy Example sentencesExamples - A spokesman for the railway said the company didn't feel it was appropriate to comment at this stage.
- Until the cause was known, he said it would not be appropriate to comment.
- I concluded that it would not be appropriate to do so, having regard to all the circumstances.
- It would certainly not be appropriate to grant a stay in these circumstances.
- I felt it was entirely appropriate to honour my adopted country in my new hometown.
- It's appropriate to apologise when you've been wrong but re-writing the past is not an option.
- In those circumstances we say it is appropriate for costs to follow the event.
- But he said it would not be appropriate to release further details of the schemes at this stage.
- Speed must be appropriate for the conditions, the size and type of vessel, and the safety of others in the area.
- Some content during this event may not be appropriate for all audiences.
- As I prepare to leave Scotland for a while, it seems appropriate to focus on some of those bigger issues.
- But it still wouldn't be appropriate to make a big deal of the fact that I have a famous father.
- In this particular case I made the decision that it was not appropriate to do that.
- Cook with spices that are appropriate for the season and for your skin and your physiology.
- This may be appropriate for patients who are not suitable for anticoagulation.
- The state, apparently, is to decide what material is appropriate for academic inquiry.
- But it is important to make sure the play programme is appropriate to the child.
- In this circumstance it is appropriate to depend upon a set of rules for swift action.
- A conditional discharge would be appropriate for the offences in all the circumstances.
- Given the title, it may be appropriate to consider the semiology of it all.
Synonyms suitable, proper, fitting, apt
verbəˈproʊpriˌeɪtəˈprōprēˌāt [with object]1Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. his images have been appropriated by advertisers Example sentencesExamples - So the Portuguese fled, and the Walanda installed themselves in the one and only town on the island, appropriating the buildings and the possessions of the enemy.
- By appropriating the fashion of the northwest outdoors, the designers took cycling out of the alternative-lifestyle gutter into the mainstream traffic of contemporary living.
- I can see appropriating certain aspect of a ‘well-know’ designer, such as yourself, but only if there is some kind of conceptual connection.
- Has anybody taken our New Wave of abstract artists to task for appropriating aboriginal art?
- This bifurcation decays and falls to pieces when productive labor, in its totality. appropriates the special characteristics of the performing artist.
- It's these same bookish types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media.
- Thus the monstrous seizer of antiquity was appropriated as a Christian image of seduction and then of penitence and remorse.
- Neo-modernism simply appropriates images and technology while forsaking old hopes and old ideas of the social.
- Because it was university property, appropriating the sign had to be an undercover job.
- This work illustrates her recent turn from appropriating photojournalistic images and portraits, toward obscuring the body.
- Fiction is thus a way of appropriating the world, giving the world the color, the taste, the sense, the dreams, the vigils, the perseverance and even the lazy repose that, to go on being, it claims.
- Stealing appropriates the fruits of someone else's labor without his permission.
- Novels and the popular press eventually appropriated this image.
- ‘When politics appropriates art, it is transformed into an object that is emptied of its meaning,’ he said.
- The accompanying images were appropriated from films and video but share certain visual qualities.
- Newspapers should not roll over before a seven-year-old church as it appropriates titles from others that carry the weight of history.
- He filched my material and appropriated my voice and exploited a human tragedy that was really none of his business.
- A user can be someone who appropriates the history, image, or reputation of a work of architecture for his own ends.
- The two were astonishingly productive, and some of the most noted men of the day were accused of appropriating their ideas.
- Look, a rich man usually appropriates land as he wishes.
Synonyms seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequestrate, sequester, take possession of, take over, assume, secure, acquire, wrest, usurp, claim, lay claim to, hijack steal, take, misappropriate plagiarize, copy, reproduce 2Devote (money or assets) to a special purpose. there can be problems in appropriating funds for legal expenses Example sentencesExamples - He doesn't seem to come into and fall out of fashion as much as he is simply appropriated for new purposes with each generation.
- His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today.
- As of September 2004, no funds have been appropriated for the implementation of this Act.
- Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during the odd-numbered years.
- If the company were forced into bankruptcy or left open to a major claim, the personal assets of the directors could be appropriated to pay off creditors.
- The state Department of Health currently appropriates $500,000 in federal funding to six contractors who provide abstinence programs in nine counties throughout the state.
- We are debating important issues this afternoon - the $50 million - odd that this Parliament appropriates for Treasury to advise the Government.
- This makes Homeland a money magnet, one of the rare federal agencies for which Congress appropriates more funds than the president seeks.
- It turned out that there were three guest bathrooms, each with similarly elegant appointments, so even with Clara appropriating one for her private use sufficient cleaning capacity remained for the boys.
- If the bank knows that a given sum or item has been appropriated for a specific purpose, the right of set-off cannot be exercised in respect of it.
- Has it subsequently been appropriated for other purposes?
- He prefers the money to be appropriated for tax cuts for the upper bracket.
- They have appropriated sophisticated 3D modeling software technology for the purpose.
- Seaports asked for three times the amount of money that the Congress appropriated for port security.
- After the war, Congress appropriated more money to harbor defense.
- If Parliament appropriates money for a purpose and the achievement of that purpose happens to involve doing something which may also represent the interests of a political party that is just not a disqualification.
- What the figures on executive compensation show is how much social wealth the tiny elite appropriates for their personal bank accounts.
- Third, additional funds will be appropriated for the support of public television and public radio.
Synonyms allocate, assign, allot, earmark, set apart, set aside, devote, apportion, budget
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare ‘make one's own’, from ad- ‘to’ + proprius ‘own, proper’. |