appropriate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Suitable or right for a particular person, situation, or purpose.

   That film is not appropriate for young children.

2. 2
   verb

   To take something for yourself, usually without permission.

   He was accused of appropriating company funds.

3. 3
   verb

   To set aside money or resources for a particular purpose.

   The government appropriated funds for new schools.

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

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