APPROPRIATOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("appropriator" is a kind of...):

acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appropriator"):

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)

pre-emptor; preemptor (someone who acquires land by preemption)

Derivation:

appropriate (take possession of by force, as after an invasion)