Definition of "appropriable" [ap•pro•pri•a•ble]

• That can be appropriated: appropriable funds. (adjective)

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• "And in place of the more easily appropriable concepts that populated Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand"
• "Sinha and Cusumano show that cooperation among firms is more likely and desirable when the technology in question is highly“appropriable”—that is, its profits can be protected and captured by the innovator."
• "Federal funding will be used primarily to provide incentives to industry to undertake high-priority technology-development activities that have not attracted private-sector investment because of high technical risk, prohibitive costs, long pay-back horizons, or anticipated returns that are not appropriable to individual firms or distinct industrial sectors."