Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being appropriated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
appropriated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that can be appropriated
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Examples
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And in place of the more easily appropriable concepts that populated Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand
Introduction 2008
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Sinha and Cusumano show that cooperation among firms is more likely and desirable when the technology in question is highly“appropriable”—that is, its profits can be protected and captured by the innovator.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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Sinha and Cusumano show that cooperation among firms is more likely and desirable when the technology in question is highly“appropriable”—that is, its profits can be protected and captured by the innovator.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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Federal funding will be used primarily to provide incentives to industry to undertake high-priority technology-development activities that have not attracted private-sector investment because of high technical risk, prohibitive costs, long pay-back horizons, or anticipated returns that are not appropriable to individual firms or distinct industrial sectors.
Technology For Economic Growth A Report Part 1 Of ITY National Archives 1993
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In the place yourself chose to mention as the foundation you laid of the inferences you are now making, our Saviour says it is a being “born of the Spirit;” doth the Scripture make this appropriable only unto men of discretion?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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He saith, “The Scripture makes it appropriable only to them who come to years of discretion.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The language of dualism or of multiplism is not incorrect or inappropriable or superseded because we catch ideal glimpses of an ultimate unity; nor would it be any the less appropriable if the underlying unity could be more clearly or completely grasped.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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This enhancement of the qualities which make any ordinary experience appealing, appropriable -- capable of full assimilation -- and enjoyable, constitutes the prime function of literature, music, drawing, painting, etc., in education.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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Allow me, Madam, to return to the ladies the heartfelt thanks of the entire command for their kind consideration, not only in sending us these very appropriable good things, but also for their generous sympathy for those near and dear ones we have left behind us.
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This enhancement of the qualities which make any ordinary experience appealing, appropriable -- capable of full assimilation -- and enjoyable, constitutes the prime function of literature, music, drawing, painting, etc., in education.
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905
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