appropriate

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
  2. verb take possession of by force, as after an invasion
  3. adjective suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

In classic literature

Synonyms

allow, earmark, set aside, reserve

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