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Part of Speech: Noun

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Part of Speech: Noun

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

Part of Speech: noun

1. A property; attribute.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. 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.

2. To make suitable; to suit.

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

4. 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.

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The title was quite appropriate, too. - "A Canadian Bankclerk", J. P. Buschlen.
A short distance or a part of the way would be more appropriate. - "Slips of Speech", John H. Bechtel.
Mrs. Waring often sat with the little party, and, as she worked, talked with Lawrence Newt of earlier days-" days when you were not born, dears," she said, cheerfully, as if to appropriate Mr. Newt. - "Trumps", George William Curtis.

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