Usually means: Taking or using without permission.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word appropriative:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriative: Merriam-Webster
  2. appropriative: Collins English Dictionary
  3. appropriative: Vocabulary.com
  4. appropriative: Wordnik
  5. appropriative: Wiktionary
  6. Appropriative, appropriative: Dictionary.com
  7. Appropriative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. appropriative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. appropriative: Rhymezone
  10. Appropriative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. appropriative: FreeDictionary.org
  12. appropriative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Appropriative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (appropriative)

▸ adjective:  Taking or setting apart for oneself; appropriating; constituting appropriation.

Similar:
appropriable, apportionable, appertinent, proprietary, allocated, expropriable, befitting, acquisitory, acquisitive, reserved, more...

Opposite:
unappropriated, unclaimed, unassigned, unallocated, available

Types:
expropriative, confiscatory, usufructuary, eminent domain, more...

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Similar:
appropriable, apportionable, appertinent, proprietary, allocated, expropriable, befitting, acquisitory, acquisitive, reserved, more...

Opposite:
unappropriated, unclaimed, unassigned, unallocated, available

Types:
expropriative, confiscatory, usufructuary, eminent domain, more...



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