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appropriate
/əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
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What does appropriate mean?
verb
- To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
verb
- (archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
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/əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt//əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ət/
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The Subcommittee may address other appropriate standards- related matters respecting telecommunications equipment or services and such other matters as it considers appropriate.
I had to bear the humiliating name “Hakadah,” meaning “the pitiful last,” until I should earn a more dignified and appropriate name.
More book examples (3)
As long as the German tribes dwelt in their forests, it did not occur to them to divide and appropriate the soil.
Barlow, in his work on Symbolism, says that "the most generally received symbol of life is a tree--as also the most appropriate."
And the man who was finally chosen to replace Vail was in many respects the appropriate leader for such a preparatory period.