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third-person singular simple present reappropriates, present participle reappropriating, simple past and past participle reappropriated
To seize and reassign. examples
To appropriate again. examples
(sociology) (of a group) To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage that group. quotations
The term 'People of the Book' has been reappropriated as a means of self-identification by Jews and by the members of certain Christian denominations.
2023 August 3, Wikipedia contributors, “People of the Book”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation