Definition of word appropriate

• Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. (adjective)
• Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. (adjective)
• Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. (adjective)
• To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley. (verb)
• 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." (verb)
• 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. (verb)
• To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone. (verb)