appropriate sth for sth
appropriate something for something
1. to allot a certain amount of money for a particular purpose.
They will appropriate $10,000 for the exhibit at the fair.
A large sum was appropriated for the expenses.
2. Euph. to take something [from someone else] and use it as something else or for a purpose different from what was intended.
Walter appropriated a truck for an ambulance.
It was necessary to appropriate your laptop for connecting to the Internet.
热门单词
- ability
- A creaking door hangs longest.
- act full of oneself
- a drop in the ocean
- a fast one
- affix
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- agitate
- ah
- a heap of sth
- A little bird told me.
- all agog
- all at once
- alley
- allow for so or sth
- all spruced up
- along
- a marked man
- a mental block (against sth)
- a mere trifle
- amount to the same thing
