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Definition of Appropriate

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. Related Definitions: All, An, Annex, Apart, Appropriate, Appropriated, Assign, As, Attribute, Belonging, Benefice, Benefit, By, Claim, Common, Corporation, Exclusion, Exclusive, Fit, For, Garden, Ground, Hence, In, Increase, Is, Let, Make, Man, Money, Navy, No, Of, One, Or, Particular, Peculiar, Peculiarly, Person, Proper, Property, Right, Self, Set, Spiritual, Spot, Suit, Suitable, Take, The, To, Use, With

Appropriate Quotations When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edward W. Howe We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. Jose Bergamin There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break. Gary Gilmore Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often. Donald Rumsfeld I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid. Drew Carey

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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