REAPPROPRIATE

Etymology

Verb

reappropriate (third-person singular simple present reappropriates, present participle reappropriating, simple past and past participle reappropriated)

To seize and reassign.

To appropriate again.

(sociology) (of a group) To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage that group.

Source: Wiktionary



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