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appropriate
UK /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ US /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
adj 5verb 4
Collocations
6(adj.)
VERBS
be, seem
consider sth, deem sth, think sth
The school deemed it appropriate to cancel classes because of the severe storm.
ADV
extremely, very | entirely, quite
PREP
for
Wearing a suit is appropriate for a job interview.
to
The music teacher chose songs appropriate to the children's age and skill level.
Definitions
verb
1
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
"I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!" Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had been his own, not the milliner's.
2
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
3
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations
4
To make suitable to; to suit.
Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
adj
1
Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster in its strict and appropriate meaning
2
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the checkout that my hairpiece 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.
3
Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
4
Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
5
Of an action or thing: pleasant.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
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"I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!" Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had
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We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at A
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The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
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1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster in its strict and appropriate meaning
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appropriate acts of divine worship
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