prop

Usage

• expropriate

  If you expropriate something, you take it away for your own use although it does not belong to you; governments frequently expropriate private land to use for public purposes.

• apropos

  When something is apropos, it is fitting to the moment or occasion.

• appropriate

  If you appropriate something that does not belong to you, you take it for yourself without the right to do so.

• malapropism

  A malapropism is an unintentional and usually humorous mistake you make when you use a word that sounds similar to the word you actually intended to use but means something completely different.

• propriety

  Propriety is behaving in a socially acceptable and appropriate way.

• appropriateness

  appropriate conduct

• appropriation

  money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

• expropriation

  taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)

• improper

  not suitable or right or appropriate

• impropriety

  an improper demeanor

• inappropriate

  not suitable for a particular occasion etc

• misappropriate

  appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

• proper

  appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs

• property

  something owned

• proprietary

  protected by trademark or patent or copyright

• proprietor

  (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

• proprietorship

  an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

• proprietress

  a woman proprietor