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What does appropriated mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of appropriate
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He prefers the money to be appropriated for tax cuts for the upper bracket.
It's these same bookish types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media.
A few, mostly the higher ranking among them, carried well crafted rapiers that they had appropriated in trade.
His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today.
He doesn't seem to come into and fall out of fashion as much as he is simply appropriated for new purposes with each generation.
Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during the odd-numbered years.

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