appropriates in English

verb

1

take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

his images have been appropriated by advertisers

synonyms: seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequestrate, sequester, take over, hijack, steal, take, swipe, nab, bag, pinch, plagiarize, copy, poach, steal, borrow, rip off

2

devote (money or assets) to a special purpose.

there can be problems in appropriating funds for legal expenses

synonyms: allocate, assign, allot, earmark, set aside, devote, apportion

verb

seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequestrate, sequester, take over, hijack
steal, take, swipe, nab, bag, pinch
plagiarize, copy, poach, steal, borrow, rip off
allocate, assign, allot, earmark, set aside, devote, apportion
allow, set aside, reserve, earmark
capture, conquer, seize

Use "appropriates" in a sentence

1. Appropriator meaning A person who appropriates something.

2. Appropriator (plural Appropriators) A person who appropriates something

3. That selfish student always appropriates the biggest bookcase and desk.

4. Any action that appropriates Adjoining land or substantially deprives an Adjoining owner of the reasonable enjoyment of his/her property is …

5. Matthew appropriates that term, and he begins his own text with that same word, probably meaning for his readers to recall the book of Genesis in a way.

6. The contemporary aesthetic of Bookishness appropriates characteristics of digital technologies and Web 2.0 reading practices into the book-bound novel in order to enhance the book’s status as an innovative medium

7. We are before a work that overflows solidarity, love, fraternal blinks, warmth of living to plenitude, eroticism, chromatic exuberance that appropriates without compromising Avarices of the codes and of the plastic language of his time.

8. Blackeyes is an attempt to explore "what does go on between men and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways that they see each other." Complex and multi-layered, the interweaving narrative threads include novelist Maurice James Kingsley who appropriates accounts by his niece Jessica about her …