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appropriate

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Source Word

appropriate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/

Verb

transitive Britain archaic

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

Japanese Meaning

自分のものにする / 着服する / 収用する（排他的な権利に基づいて使用・接収する）

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The committee decided to appropriate the funds for the new project without approval.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

委員会は承認を得ずに新しいプロジェクトのための資金を流用することに決めた。

Sense（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.

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Sense（2）

A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.

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Sense（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

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Sense（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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

appropriates

（ present singular third-person ）

appropriating

（ participle present ）

appropriated

（ participle past ）

appropriated

（ past ）

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