| appropriate | |
| 1. adj. Suitable or fit; proper. | |
| The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better. | |
| 2. adj. 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 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. | |
| 3. adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit. | |
| 5. v. To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. | |
| Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. | |
| 6. v. 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 | |
| 7. v. (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). | |
