reappropriate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To seize and reassign.
To appropriate again.
To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.

/ɹi.əˈpɹoʊpɹieɪt/

reappropriate reappropriates reappropriating reappropriated

From re- + appropriate.

reassign take back reclaim

reappropriation

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