appropriate

1. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.Examples: "Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."; ""I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!" Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had been his own, not the milliner's."; "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day."Synonyms: help oneselftransitive

2. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.Examples: "A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."; "to appropriate money for the increase of the navy"; "2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges" "I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," LaPierre said."Synonyms: allocatetransitive

3. (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).Examples: "Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations"Britishtransitive

4. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.Examples: "Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror."; "Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear."; "The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery . Picnickers appropriate the lawn and declare for the proletariat . The sheriff comes , argues with them and they depart , leaving the Sunday [...]"archaictransitive