appropriator

Noun

Meaning

One who appropriates.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

finder detachment robber discoverer absorber burglar opportunist acquirer assignor spotter claimant rightist capturer corrector search party
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Antonyms

loser giver restorer bestower abdicator returner
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Hypernyms

acquirer

Hyponyms

poacher kleptomaniac preemptor pre-emptor

Examples

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. Lawrence Lessig

When the Appropriator Is Your Own: On Kendrick Lamar and Why Lina Iris Viktor’s Constellations Does Not Belong in ‘All the Stars’ Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

appropriative appropriatively appropriativeness appropry approued approvability