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What does appropriative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Taking or setting apart for oneself.
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Entertaining and allusive, Lang's appropriative style works in both directions.
All was inspired not by Santa Cruz, but by Kate and Laura's childhood memories, or confabulations, thereof — a meaningful step away from the culture's appropriative mood.
It is Fevvers' ambiguity which allows her to elude the appropriative gestures of spectators and would be captors.
It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history.
Because appropriative rights can be separated from the land and sold or leased, they can form the basis for private water trades.
Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings.

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