appropriated

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Editorial note

The money is always globally appropriated and the grants are always applicable to many fields.

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Quick take

set aside for a specified purpose

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adjective

set aside for a specified purpose

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for appropriated.

adjective

set aside for a specified purpose

See also: condemned, seized, confiscate, taken, confiscated

Example sentences

The money is always globally appropriated and the grants are always applicable to many fields.

My read is that your argument about the characters Disney appropriated misses the point about those it's created.

Richard Prince, whether you like him or not, is an artist and his medium is typically found/appropriated objects.

The land etc which is Ordos today was appropriated by the state and they built a city on it.

Hence the 'weaker' nation feels deprived of its history when its proudest moments are appropriated away.

Disco was a black gay culture and the Bee Gees were a pop band who appropriated and pretty much ruined it.

It would be appropriated for something else' or something to that extent.

Is it her fault that she was born at a time when all land and productive capacity has been appropriated by those who came before?

Yes, to the best of my knowledge the limitations placed on use of funds are only for the funds being appropriated by the current bill.

The spreadsheets possibly only represent a fraction of the data appropriated.

Is it my limited exposure to English, or has the European Commission appropriated this word, and has by the way infected WSJ to use it?

They took intellectual property and appropriated it for a clone.

Quote examples

How do you know that your hypothetical "very simple listener" won't be bypassed or re-appropriated for other means?

That is, cultural elements of the colonial subjects are appropriated by the colonial power as a "new" invention of that culture, rather than viewed (by the contemporary discourse) as an adoption of some aspect of the colonial culture.

I t is worth noting that only one of those three 2012 works uses the term "snow white" (in the title) and they prefix it with "Grimm's [Snow White]" which automatically counters any claim by Disney that Disney's trademark is being appropriated.

"Breaking" the "Java standard:" Google "appropriated," via a permissive open source license, an open source implementation of some Java base classes, and the (not protectable) syntax of the Java language.