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appropriable

appropriable adjective: able to be appropriated.

Adjective

appropriable (comparative more appropriable, superlative most appropriable)

  1. Able to be appropriated.
    • For the greatest lunacy of all is that not one of them can see the smallest reason why any human being should be allowed to live unless in addition to supporting himself he can produce a privately appropriable profit for a shareholder or a rent for a landlord. Why, they argue, should anyone...1933 July 16 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “An Explanation”, in The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture, London: Constable & Co, published August 1933, →OCLC, page 8

Forms of appropriable

comparativemore appropriable
superlativemost appropriable

Origin of appropriable

From appropriate + -able.

Words formed from appropriable

Questions about appropriable

What does appropriable mean?
Appropriable means able to be appropriated.
What part of speech is appropriable?
Appropriable is an adjective.

Words near appropriable in the dictionary

  1. appropre
  2. appropred
  3. appropres
  4. appropriabilities
  5. appropriability
  6. appropriable
  7. appropriacies
  8. appropriacy
  9. appropriate
  10. appropriate adult
  11. appropriate adults

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