Usually means: Takes or uses for oneself.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word appropriates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriates: Merriam-Webster
  2. appropriates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. appropriates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Appropriates, appropriates: Wordnik
  5. appropriates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. appropriates: Wiktionary
  7. appropriates: Dictionary.com
  8. appropriates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. appropriates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. appropriates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See appropriate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (appropriate)

adjective:  Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
adjective:  Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
adjective:  (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
adjective:  (of an action or thing) Morally good; positive.
adjective:  (of an action or thing) pleasant;
verb:  (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
verb:  (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
verb:  (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
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