Definition of "appropriator" []

• A person who appropriates something (noun)
• The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice (noun)

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• "I think there's a compelling case to be made that, by and large, an appropriator from a dominant culture carrying out such an act is likely to be doing so for negative motives and to negative results, that historically such cross-cultural sacrilege is motivated by misrepresentation and discrimination and aimed towards furthering misrepresentation and discrimination."
• "Jim Moran …. your days as an “appropriator” are getting short, time to spend more time with the family too!"
• "Another appropriator, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said she would fight Republicans for a funding freeze — rather than cuts — to avoid harming programs such as weather satellites."