English-French translations for appropriate

  • approprié
    Pourquoi ne prend-on pas les mesures appropriées? Why are appropriate steps not taken? Les mots "as appropriate" (de façon appropriée) n'ont pas été traduits correctement en français. The words 'as appropriate' have not been properly translated into French. Il conviendra, à cet effet, d'élaborer des solutions appropriées. So we must find appropriate solutions for this.
  • approprier
  • convenable
    Il ne serait pas convenable que je le fasse. It would not be appropriate for me to do so. (Les 15 ans proposés par la Commission sont convenables). (The 15 years proposed by the Commission are appropriate.) Une solution convenable doit être trouvée au problème des substances inorganiques. An appropriate solution must be found to the problem of inorganic substances.
  • idoineLe terme idoine est donc "expertise"."Expertise" is the appropriate word. Le niveau politique idoine, ce sont les gouvernements nationaux et la zone euro. The appropriate political levels are national governments and the eurozone. L'organisation mondiale du commerce est à mon avis le moyen idoine pour forcer l'ouverture des relations commerciales avec le Japon. The World Trade Organization is, in my view, the appropriate forum in which to raise trading relations with Japan.

Definition of appropriate

  • Suitable or fit; proper
  • Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper
  • Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved
  • To make suitable; to suit
  • To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right
  • To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with ''to'or ''for''
  • To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property

Examples

  • The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
  • I dont think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
  • While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
  • Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit
  • A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden
  • to appropriate money for the increase of the navy

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