English Dictionary

appropriate

/əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/

verb

(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

He appropriates the credit for her success.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

(transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations

意味（4）

(transitive, archaic) 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.