Appropriate vs. Reappropriate

Suitable or fit; proper.

Example: ‘The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.’;

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

Example: ‘I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.’; ‘While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.’;

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

To make suitable; to suit.

(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

Example: ‘Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.’;

(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

Example: ‘A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.’; ‘to appropriate money for the increase of the navy’;

To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Example: ‘In its strict and appropriate meaning.’; ‘Appropriate acts of divine worship.’; ‘It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.’;

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.

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.

To make suitable; to suit.

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

A property; attribute.

give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause;

Example: ‘I will earmark this money for your research’;

take possession of by force, as after an invasion;

Example: ‘the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants’; ‘The army seized the town’; ‘The militia captured the castle’;

suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc;

Example: ‘a book not appropriate for children’; ‘a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity’; ‘it seems that an apology is appropriate’;

appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

meant or adapted for an occasion or use;

Example: ‘a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty’; ‘not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy’;

suitable and fitting;

Example: ‘the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing’;

being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;

Example: ‘the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images’; ‘an apt reply’;

To seize and reassign.

To appropriate again.

(sociology) (of a group) To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage that group.

Example: ‘Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.’;