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Taking what isn't yours and acting like you found it on sale.
means Claiming or borrowing something — culture, credit, property, ideas — as your own, often without permission or acknowledgment.
from From Latin appropriare, to make one's own, built from ad- (to) plus proprius (one's own) — the same root that gave us property and proper.
Legal senseMisappropriation means taking funds or assets unlawfully.
Cultural senseBorrowing without credit; the modern flashpoint meaning.
Funding twistGovernments appropriate money by approving it, not stealing it.