1. [appropriate (for/to sth)] 适当的；合适的；正当的
及物动词：
1. 拿（某事物）为己所用（尤指未经获准或非法者）；擅用；挪用；窃用
2. [appropriate sth for sth ] 拨出（尤指款项） 词形变化
- 形容词 appropriative
- 副词 appropriately
- 名称 appropriator，appropriateness，appropriation
- 时态 appropriated，appropriating，appropriates
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- suitable and fitting
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
- appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion