reappropriate
verb/ɹi.əˈpɹoʊpɹieɪt/US
Etymology
From re- + appropriate.
- derived from appropriātus
- inherited from appropriaten
Definitions
To seize and reassign.
To appropriate again.
- Near-synonym: reassign
To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.
- Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
- The term 'People of the Book' has been reappropriated as a means of self-identification by Jews and by the members of certain Christian denominations.
The neighborhood
- neighborreappropriation
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reappropriate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA