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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appropriate
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an appropriate measure (=a measure that is suitable for a particular situation)
▪ In the event of an assault, staff will need to take appropriate measures to defend themselves.
an appropriate response
▪ She laughed, which didn't really seem an appropriate response.
an appropriate/apt metaphor (=a very suitable one)
▪ Building on sand is an apt metaphor for the challenge we face.
appropriate/inappropriateformal (= suitable/not suitable for that situation)
▪ Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour.
deem sth necessary/appropriate etc
▪ They were told to take whatever action they deemed necessary.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
entirely
▪ Administration officials said it was entirely appropriate for the Clintons to host overnight guests.
▪ The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
▪ That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor's lovemaking was entirely appropriate.
▪ Young Fowler thinks it entirely appropriate.
▪ Her reaction, he wrote, was entirely appropriate.
▪ It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development.
▪ Theological answers are necessary and entirely appropriate to this doubt.
more
▪ Some of them may have become bottom living, crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate.
▪ With the tab stops at 35, 50 and 55 deleted, the headings shift to more appropriate locations. 12.
▪ It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive - carriages would have looked more appropriate.
▪ On the other hand, sometimes a direct approach may be more appropriate.
▪ In some situations air streamed integral visors and helmets are more appropriate especially in humid areas.
▪ Nothing could have been more appropriate.
▪ All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name.
▪ I thought Poems for D.T.'s would be more appropriate, or would attract more attention on a book-shop counter.
particularly
▪ Electronic marking is particularly appropriate on large courses, since it helps avoid the problems of managing the handing-in of work.
▪ A field-warehousing arrangement is particularly appropriate for financing seasonal inventory buildups.
▪ It is perhaps particularly appropriate to consider tourism in an issue of the magazine whose theme is writers.
▪ I perceive him as a particularly appropriate model.
▪ They are thus particularly appropriate for studies of convection and stratified flow.
▪ The method is particularly appropriate for assaying heavy metals such as lead in blood. 33-36.
▪ This might seem a particularly appropriate task for geographers although similar work has been the province of biologists, archaeologists and geologists.
▪ However inversion would not appear to be particularly appropriate given the actual data involved in this case.
■ NOUN
action
▪ He also has the responsibility of deciding the appropriate action for changes where rejection would be contentious.
▪ Each division of the school receives its own results, which allow it to pinpoint problems and take appropriate action.
▪ Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well.
▪ If and when points come forward the group meets to discuss and decide appropriate action.
▪ A trader knowledgeable of such developments can take appropriate action.
▪ Before any appropriate action can be taken, it must be clear to all concerned what constitutes physical abuse.
▪ Much appreciation is due to those residents who have brought various incidents to attention resulting in appropriate action.
▪ But as soon as his regular check brings to light the absentee he is able to take prompt and appropriate action.
case
▪ These principal chief officers should in appropriate cases be responsible for more than one department.
▪ This would appear to legitimise his interference in operational matters in appropriate cases.
▪ In an appropriate case a bank will require a mortgage to be explained by a solicitor to the borrower. 7.
▪ However, in appropriate cases an apology should be added to an adjudication.
▪ But these Acts do not proscribe activities, they simply provide for investigation in appropriate cases.
▪ The same in an appropriate case would apply if the monies were simply advanced to him.
▪ Then in an appropriate case the public authority may be able to secure the institution of a prosecution for criminal libel.
▪ Removal expenses and travelling expenses in connection with the move to Oxford of the successful candidate are generally paid in full in appropriate cases.
level
▪ Only then can they set the appropriate level of interest rates.
▪ Terms should be reviewed for consistency and appropriate level of pre-coordination, word form and level of specificity.
▪ It was crucial for successful demand management that central government generated or contained investment to an appropriate level.
▪ The rate of interest at which this assistance is provided indicates the Bank's view of the appropriate level of interest rates.
▪ For more senior jobs individuals will have already demonstrated an appropriate level of intelligence by their educational standards and successful work experience.
▪ The debate is now about the most appropriate levels for decision-making.
▪ Certain Scotvec modules are acceptable at appropriate levels as an alternative to O/S or Higher qualifications.
measure
▪ In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
▪ It is then necessary to develop appropriate measures for this performance.
▪ What is the appropriate measure of scale difference between industrial activities?
▪ Devaluation has often been perceived as an appropriate measure for countries running high and persistent balance of payments current account deficits.
▪ Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.
▪ Is cloze procedure an appropriate measure of comprehension?
▪ Our second should be to search for appropriate measures for comparison.
place
▪ Other Companies of the Battalion were already moving off in time to take their appropriate places in the March Table.
▪ One is the ambiguity in his argument about the appropriate place of semiotic process in the analysis of work.
▪ This is an appropriate place, perhaps, for a few words about the use of roses for hedging and screening.
▪ These points will be referred to again at appropriate places in later chapters.
▪ If a document was issued or received it would be filed in the appropriate place in Nigel Couville's kingdom.
▪ The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap, laugh and commiserate in all the appropriate places.
▪ Then they can be put into their appropriate places.
▪ Bring Started Date } { Time } in the appropriate places on the form NEWOED1.
response
▪ This can surprise us and overwhelm us so much that by far the most appropriate response is to laugh.
▪ An appropriate response, it seemed, would have been for the company to redouble its efforts to improve its own offering.
▪ The anger is an appropriate response to what the writer describes, a public statement about conditions of life or death.
▪ Gale is away from the phone, but he will listen to the recording later and make an appropriate response.
▪ He hadn't needed a thesaurus to decide on the appropriate response.
▪ Although she had sensed that a fiasco like this was inevitable, Amanda fumbled for an appropriate response.
▪ Theory suggests that an exchange rate change may be the appropriate response to a country specific shock.
▪ It is competition, however, which forces businesses and resource suppliers to make appropriate responses.
time
▪ Each case must be considered on its own merits though it is important that action is taken at the appropriate time.
▪ It was a two-edged sword of obligations of favors given and favors to be returned at a later, appropriate time.
▪ It is important to establish that the client and key employees will be available at the appropriate time.
▪ We can assess all the relevant factors for you, and produce the right amount of cash at the appropriate time.
▪ An appropriate time for Dole to speak his mind; and, at one level, an obviously sensible thing to do.
▪ An appropriate time for a visit.
▪ No spraying, of course, and only circumspect cutting back at the most appropriate time.
▪ Consequently, it can be planned so that it is raised at the most appropriate time for it to be dealt with effectively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Considering what he did, I think the punishment was appropriate.
▪ Each member is given a special exercise routine that is appropriate for his or her needs
▪ We will take appropriate action once the investigation is over.
▪ You will be given your orders at the appropriate time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All seven transactions are numbered and posted to the appropriate accounts.
▪ The Kruskal-Wallis test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare groups as appropriate.
▪ The main aim of several sets of video materials is to present examples of language in use in an appropriate context.
▪ The use of sound was imaginative and appropriate, and caught the audience's attention.
▪ Then you are criticised for not winning in a style they regard as appropriate.
▪ You spot what season of the year is appropriate.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
money
▪ Parliament would have unlimited access to the funds, but would have to pass specific resolutions to appropriate money.
▪ The Clinton administration favors paying the debt over several years but has been unable to persuade Congress to appropriate the money.
▪ In addition, Congress must appropriate money each year.
▪ It saved labor, the very thing we are now appropriating money to get a job for.
▪ If the council wanted a major new initiative, it would appropriate additional money.
▪ Yet there was virtually no chance Congress would appropriate the money if Boutros-Ghali remained in office.
▪ Instead he voiced the heartfelt hope that Congress would appropriate the money to keep the Exposition open for another year.
▪ Congress appropriated money for the agency.
property
▪ The Court of Appeal held that there was no theft because the accused had not appropriated the property.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carlin is suspected of appropriating company funds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An awareness of old history encourages caution when it is appropriated for a contemporary cause.
▪ Eventually their designs were appropriated for industrial production, which could be sold at cheaper prices.
▪ Other reactionary politicians vie to appropriate historical symbols of pre-communist antiquity.
▪ Since then, spending has slowly increased each year, but the Legislature has always appropriated more than Weld has requested.
▪ Yet the means of production are privately owned, and the profits are appropriated by individuals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appropriate

Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appropriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic]
    --Paley.

  4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
    --Blackstone.

Appropriate

Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, a. [L. appropriatus, p. p. of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See Proper.] Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

In its strict and appropriate meaning.
--Porteus.

Appropriate acts of divine worship.
--Stillingfleet.

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
--Locke.

Appropriate

Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, n. A property; attribute. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appropriate

early 15c., "take possession of," from Late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare, adpropriare (c.450) "to make one's own," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + propriare "take as one's own," from proprius "one's own" (see proper). Related: Appropriated; appropriating.

appropriate

"specially suitable, proper," early 15c., from Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare (see appropriate (v.)). Related: Appropriately; appropriateness.

Wiktionary
appropriate

  1. 1 (context obsolete English) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. 2 Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. 3 Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. v

  2. 1 (context transitive archaic English) To make suitable; to suit. 2 (context transitive English) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

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WordNet
appropriate

  1. adj. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate" [ant: inappropriate]

  2. appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness [syn: advantageous]

  3. meant or adapted for an occasion or use; "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy" [syn: suitable, suited]

  4. suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing" [syn: harmonious]

  5. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: apposite, apt, pertinent]

appropriate

  1. v. give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research" [syn: allow, earmark, set aside, reserve]

  2. take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: capture, seize, conquer]

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Usage examples of "appropriate".

Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his, and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality.

Genar-Hofoen said, slapping the Affronter about the beak-end with the appropriate degree of enthusiastic force to indicate bonhomie.

I am deeply embarrassed at the affrontery of a girl not yet nineteen pointing her finger at a man nearly three times her age, and her teacher to boot, but at the time it seemed appropriate.

God, or some one of the gods, in sending the souls to their birth, placed eyes in the face to catch the light and allotted to each sense the appropriate organ, providing thus for the safety which comes by seeing and hearing in time and, seeking or avoiding under guidance of touch.

He should have responded with one or other of the appropriate antistrophes, but he was silent.

The great secret of our success in treating this disease consists in applying appropriate constitutional treatment at the same time.

The brooms were specifically appropriated to specific contracts, in a practical, if not in a technical, sense.

Congress has appropriated the money, and which it has directed the President to obtain.

The point at issue was whether a district court of the United States was free to dismiss an action by the United States, as assignee of the Soviet government, for certain moneys which were once the property of a Russian metal corporation whose assets had been appropriated by the Soviet government.

Federal Government, whose compensation, or any part thereof, is paid from funds authorized or appropriated by any act of Congress, to have membership in any political party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government in the United States.

Congress appropriated money to pay counsel on both sides of the argument, the Court passed on the constitutionality of the carriage tax and sustained it as valid, and in so doing tacitly assumed that it had the power to review Congressional acts.

All else is now mere clothing about the man, not to be called part of him since it lies about him unsought, not his because not appropriated to himself by any act of the will.

Quality: reason has, so to speak, appropriated a portion of Reality, that portion manifest to it on the surface.

Soul to be appropriated on the lower ranges to some individual, but to belong on the higher to that other sphere?

In the second half of the decade, Congress appropriated some 98 percent of what the administration requested for intelligence programs.