appropriate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
2. v. To set apart for a specific use: appropriating funds for education.
3. v. To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission: Lee appropriated my unread newspaper and never returned it.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; claim or use as by an exclusive right: as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
2. In general, to take for any use; put to use.
3. To set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use, in exclusion of all other purposes or uses: as, Congress appropriated more money than was needed; to appropriate a spot of ground for a garden.
4. In ecclesiastical law, to annex, as a benefice, to an ecclesiastical corporation, for its perpetual use.
5. Set apart for a particular use or person; hence, belonging peculiarly; suitable; fit; befitting; proper.
6. Synonyms Apt, becoming, in keeping, felicitous.
7. n. Peculiar characteristic; attribute; proper function; property.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
2. adj. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
3. adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
4. v. To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.
5. v. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
6. v. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
7. v. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
2. v. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
3. v. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for
4. v. To make suitable; to suit.
5. v. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
6. n. A property; attribute.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
2. adj. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
3. v. take possession of by force, as after an invasion