appropriates
- 1Third-person singular simple present indicative of appropriate.
The legislature appropriates funds for disaster relief at the start of each fiscal year.
He routinely appropriates credit for work his junior colleagues actually did.
Note
Only the verb can take this -s. The adjective spelled appropriate, meaning suitable or proper, has no such form, so appropriates always names an action. That action needs an object: one appropriates land, credit or funds. In the sense of assigning, the recipient follows with to or for, as in the council appropriates money for repairs. The older meaning "to suit" is archaic and rarely met today.
appropriates is a form of appropriate
appropriate, verb: To take something for one's own use, especially by claiming an exclusive right to it. Full entry
- Forms
- appropriateappropriates he/she/itappropriating -ing formappropriated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- appropriate → appropriates: add -s
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