appropriating
- 1Present participle and gerund of appropriate.
Critics accused the brand of appropriating traditional designs purely for profit.
The committee spent the afternoon appropriating funds for next year's projects.
Note
The -ing form belongs only to the verb. The adjective appropriate, meaning suitable or proper, has no such form, so appropriating means taking, assigning, or (archaically) making suitable, never simply being suitable. The assigning use keeps its prepositions: appropriating funds for a project, appropriating land to a purpose. The claiming use takes a bare object. As a gerund it can head a sentence: appropriating others' work invites criticism.
appropriating 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 → appropriating: drop the e, add -ing
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