appropriator
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- noun
- /əˈproʊpriˌeɪtər/
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apropiador
- With a $7.8 billion surplus in the program, higher education stakeholders and congressional Democrats had called on appropriators to use the lame-duck session to increase the value of the grants and restore funding for summer semesters.
- Senate appropriators
- House appropriators
Examples
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The artist was criticized for being an appropriator of indigenous cultures without permission.
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Some viewed the author as an appropriator after he published a book based on another's experiences.
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And you have to deal with the appropriators that control your budget.
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House and Senate appropriators have yet to agree on a final budget, and there is no guarantee the extra $4 million will stay.
Academic text (2005) -
The big exception here is the federal Reading First program, for which the appropriators eliminated funding altogether.
Blog text (6) -
For any national strategy on international development to be successful, it must be designed in concert with Congress in order to gain support from appropriators and authorizers.
Academic text (2009) -
In conference, the appropriators allocated $475 million for inertial fusion in DOE's defense programs budget for fiscal 2000.
Academic text (1999) -
Gaytan said that the American Legion is "outraged that the appropriators cut funding for the emergency preparedness centers at a time when we need them most."
Academic text (2003) -
As an appropriator, he took credit for ideas that did not originally belong to him.
Synonyms
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A person who uses others selfishly to get money or power
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A person who takes things that belong to others without permission
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A person who steals valuable things by force, often during war
A person or thing that takes and keeps something
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
appropriator = appropriate (semi-transparent) = appropriate + or
Formed by the regular agentive suffix -or on the verb 'appropriate', but learners may be misled by the more frequent adjective sense 'appropriate' meaning 'suitable'.
Etymology
Appropriator comes from appropriate, made from parts ad- 'to' and proprius 'own', the same root as property and proper. So an appropriator is someone who 'makes something their own', and today the word usually means a person who takes something for their own use, often without permission.