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means The act of taking something — an idea, a cultural practice, property, or credit — for your own use, often without permission and usually without payment.

from From Latin appropriare, 'to make one's own,' built from ad- ('to') plus proprius ('one's own, proper, particular') — the same root that gives us 'property' and 'proper.' The Latin verb was already doing double duty: a legal term for claiming ownership. English picked it up in the 15th century for the straightforward business of setting something aside for a purpose (Parliament still 'appropriates funds'), but the darker sense — taking what belongs to someone else and calling it yours — rode along in the same word from the start, since 'making a thing your own' was always just one step from 'making a thing yours that wasn't.'