Crossword-Solution: APPROPRIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Appropriate | a. | Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. |
| Appropriate | v. t. | 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. |
| Appropriate | v. t. | 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. |
| Appropriate | v. t. | To make suitable; to suit. |
| Appropriate | v. t. | To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. |
| Appropriate | n. | A property; attribute. |
We have 218 clues for the answer “APPROPRIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Take, or authorize to give | 1 answer |
| The army seized the town | 1 answer |
| the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants | 1 answer |
| jump a claim | 3 answers |
| call oneself owner | 4 answers |
| disentitle | 4 answers |
| secularise | 4 answers |
| colonise | 5 answers |
| sleep at | 5 answers |
| nationalize | 6 answers |
| condign | 6 answers |
| move in | 6 answers |
| make a profit | 7 answers |
| nationalise | 7 answers |
| monopolise | 7 answers |
| Part 3 of definition | 8 answers |
| ASSUME ownership | 8 answers |
| foreclose | 8 answers |
| place oneself | 8 answers |
| merited | 10 answers |
| expropriate | 13 answers |
| have an address | 13 answers |
| arrogate | 14 answers |
| inherit | 15 answers |
| Purloin | 16 answers |
| Requisition | 17 answers |
| filch | 20 answers |
| Take over | 20 answers |
| Germane | 20 answers |
| Commandeer. | 20 answers |
| Deserved | 20 answers |
| inhabit | 21 answers |
| Swipe | 22 answers |
| Pilfer | 25 answers |
| Derive | 25 answers |
| Possess | 26 answers |
| COP ___ | 27 answers |
| Squat | 27 answers |
| Pertinent | 28 answers |
| apposite | 29 answers |
| Dwell | 32 answers |
| Collar | 32 answers |
| Justifiable | 36 answers |
| Allot | 37 answers |
| Obtain | 38 answers |
| Occupy | 39 answers |
| Make Money | 41 answers |
| Annex | 41 answers |
| licit | 42 answers |
| Overrun | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APPROPRIATE (5)
More frequently, however, on ascending the steps, you would discern— in the entry if it were summer time, or in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers—a row of venerable figures, sitting in old-fashioned chairs, which were tipped on their hind legs back against the wall.
Then I tried talk, and found that her name was Weena, which, though I don’t know what it meant, somehow seemed appropriate enough.
Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit at the appropriate times.
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Beautiful, radiant, tender as she was, she chilled his old affection; that sort of feeling was not appropriate.
Quotes with APPROPRIATE (3)
We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.
In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1983–2014).