Meaning

• To make suitable; to suit.

• To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

  "Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."

• To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

  "A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."

• To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Meaning

• Suitable or fit; proper.

  "The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."

• Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

  "I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place."

• Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.