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Multiple Meanings
appropriate
— as in: it is appropriate
These clothes aren’t
appropriate
for work.
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
appropriate
— as in: appropriated the
The money has been
appropriated
, but it hasn’t been spent yet.
give, assign, or seize a resource — usually for a particular use
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