Uttal
US- US
- Okänd accent:
- IPA: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹiː.ɪt/
- IPA: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹiː.ət/
- IPA: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt/
- IPA: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ət/
- IPA: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
- IPA: /əˈprəʊ.priˌɪt/
- RP:
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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
Verb
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
- (transitive) To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Exempel
- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
- 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.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
- With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
- William Paley
- Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
- A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
- to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
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