appropriate
adjective
suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc..
appropriator
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a word derived from
appropriate.
Example Sentences
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“What you really get as appropriations chair is hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks,” a fellow congressional appropriator told me, “not what everybody else gets.”
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Means said she found areas of agreement with Collins, but the powerful appropriator expressed doubt that the administration sincerely aimed to fight chronic disease, given its cuts to health research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
“We can in no way pass 11 bills in eight days,” said Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat appropriator, referring to the number of bills Congress would have to approve before Sept. 30.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
Mr. McCarthy suggested Senate Republicans made the agreement because their chief appropriator, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, is retiring at the end of his term.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
In determining controversies between parties thus situated, this court proceeds upon the presumption of a grant from the government to the first appropriator of mines, water privileges, and the like.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field
