appropriator

Other forms: appropriators

Definitions of appropriator
  1. noun
    someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)
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    types:
    klepto, kleptomaniac
    someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive
    poacher
    someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
    pre-emptor, preemptor
    someone who acquires land by preemption
    type of:
    acquirer
    a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
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