Meaning

verb give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

verb take possession of by force, as after an invasion

adjective suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

originFrom Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

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