appropriating

Verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

1. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
   • Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

   Synonyms:

   help oneself

2. (transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   allocate

3. (UK, transitive) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
   • Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
4. (archaic, transitive) 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.1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 67

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