ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Appropriable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Appropriable is an adjective meaning (chiefly law) Able to be appropriated.

Meaning

(chiefly law) Able to be appropriated.

Example Sentences

For the greatest lunacy of all is that not one of them can see the smallest reason why any human being should be allowed to live unless in addition to supporting himself he can produce a privately appropriable profit for a shareholder or a rent for a landlord. Why, they argue, should anyone organize the work of propertyless men merely to produce their own food?

Synonyms for appropriable

Depending on context, synonyms include alienable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alienable, apportionable, allocable, appropriative, borrowable, arbable.

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