Definition of Appropriate

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Appropriate

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

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.

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.

To make suitable; to suit.

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

A property; attribute.

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Appropriate Quotations

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
Friedrich August von Hayek

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James

Appropriate Translations

appropriate in Afrikaans is geskikt
appropriate in Dutch is gepast, passend, geschikt
appropriate in French is appropriez, approprient, homologue, approprions
appropriate in Latin is vindico (vindicatum), adsumo (assumo), aptus
appropriate in Norwegian is passende
appropriate in Portuguese is apropriado
appropriate in Spanish is tempestivo, apropiado, adecuada, respectivo

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