English Dictionary

appropriate

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/

動詞

他動詞 イギリス英語 古語

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

日本語の意味

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）

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

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。

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.

appropriates （ present singular third-person ）

appropriating （ participle present ）

appropriated （ participle past ）

appropriated （ past ）