Usually means: Taking or using without permission.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word appropriating:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriating: Merriam-Webster
  2. appropriating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. appropriating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Appropriating, appropriating: Wordnik
  5. appropriating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. appropriating: Wiktionary
  7. Appropriating, appropriating: Dictionary.com
  8. appropriating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Appropriating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Appropriating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Appropriating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. appropriating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. appropriating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. appropriating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriating: 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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