unappropriated
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈproʊpriˌeɪtɪd/
:
no apropiado
- Several unappropriated plots of land in the region are available for community gardens.
Examples
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There are still unappropriated funds in the budget that can be allocated to new projects.
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To be sure, there are seventeen fewer unappropriated ideas available for me to appropriate than before my friend started thinking.
Academic text (1990) -
The park has many unappropriated areas where anyone can play and enjoy the outdoors.
Synonyms
17
3.7
Something the owner has not taken
3
3.7
Not given a job, task, or place to go
1
5.6
Not given for any specific use
1
7.2
Assets not yet given to the people who should get them
Not given to anyone, for example a seat or task
Not officially set aside for any specific use
Money or resources not yet assigned to a use and free for other needs
Left without an award when someone should get it
Not claimed or used by anyone
Costs not assigned to products or projects and still in the accounts
How Allocated
Surface Forms
Morphology
unappropriated = appropriated (transparent) = un + appropriate + ed
Adding the productive prefix 'un-' to the past-participial/adjectival form 'appropriated' yields the clear meaning 'not appropriated'.
Etymology
The word unappropriated starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest is appropriate, which comes from an old Latin root meaning 'one's own' and is the same root as property and proper. So, unappropriated describes something that has not been made someone's own or set aside, which is why it means 'not assigned or claimed'.