2. Verb. To appropriate again. ¹
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Definition of Reappropriate
1. appropriate [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES] - See also: appropriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reappropriate
Literary usage of Reappropriate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1907)
"674) entitled "An act to reappropriate money for the erection of a new armory
building in the city of Oswego, as provided for by chapter 742 of the Laws of ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1824)
"... the previous proprietary right, or it did, and was an attempt t6 reappropriate
to the use of the manor, what had been appropriated before. ..."
3. Laws by Illinois (1917)
"AN ACT to reappropriate ike unexpended balance of appropriations made by an Act
entitled "An Act in relation to procuring of sites and erection of armory ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... reappropriate to an additional or secondary public use property it has once
set apart to public use; for it must be apparent that the sovereign power ..."
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