| NOUN | person | appropriator | someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission) |
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| Sounds | ahprow'priyey.ter | |
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| Rhymes | abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter... | |
| Meaning | someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission). | |
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| Narrower | kleptomaniac | someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive |
| poacher | someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | |
| preemptor, pre-emptor | someone who acquires land by preemption | |
| Broader | acquirer | A person who acquires something (usually permanently) |
| Verbs | appropriate | take possession of by force, as after an invasion |
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