Appropriate vs. Reappropriate
Appropriateadjective
Suitable or fit; proper.
Appropriateadjective
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
Appropriateadjective
(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Appropriateverb
To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriateverb
(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Appropriateverb
(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
Appropriateverb
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Appropriateadjective
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Appropriateverb
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.
Appropriateverb
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.
Appropriateverb
To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriateverb
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Appropriatenoun
A property; attribute.
Appropriateverb
give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause;
Appropriateverb
take possession of by force, as after an invasion;
Appropriateadjective
suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc;
Appropriateadjective
appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
Appropriateadjective
meant or adapted for an occasion or use;
Appropriateadjective
suitable and fitting;
Appropriateadjective
being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;
Reappropriateverb
To seize and reassign.
Reappropriateverb
To appropriate again.
Reappropriateverb
(sociology) (of a group) To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage that group.
