What's the difference between appropriate and underspend?
Appropriate
Definition:
(a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
(v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
(v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
(v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
(v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
(n.) A property; attribute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(3) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(5) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(7) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(8) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(9) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(10) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
(11) The compounds 1-3 in reaction with nicotine aldehyde or p-chlorobenzaldehyde were transformed into appropriate anilides of 2,3-epoxypropionic acid 4-9.
(12) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(13) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(14) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(15) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(16) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
(19) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
(20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.
Underspend
Definition:
(v. t.) To spend less than.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasury has also earmarked £3bn in "underspends" by departments that have cut more rapidly than planned, to be put to use.
(2) We’re really pleased that our internal efficiencies we don’t have to cut the money going to arts organisations.” Jane Martinson Justice The latest round of savings imposed on the Ministry of Justice, amounting to £249m off the annual budget, is likely to come from delaying capital projects and underspends in legal aid.
(3) Smith was also put up earlier in the day to defend the U-turn on Channel 4 News and she came under pressure to identify the departments from where the underspends would be found.
(4) The Lib Dems say they have had to fight hard to persuade the chancellor to sign up to the bank, which will be funded from "underspends" by Whitehall departments.
(5) "While sticking to the austerity plan there was room for more capital spending," Cridland said, "not least because of the levels of underspending.
(6) He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme thar areas of departmental "underspends" were being identified along with areas where project deadlines have slipped.
(7) "We also need know what they will do if there is a significant underspend on the assistance scheme.
(8) The Treasury line is that the savings can be made from good housekeeping, with departments being pressed to continue underspending their budgets.
(9) But a department spokesman said that although the government was abolishing the End Year Flexibility (EYF) system at the end of March 2011, this did not apply to underspends in the NHS, and the trust was therefore wrong.
(10) If there's zero underspend in 2013-14 it shows how difficult providers and commissioners are finding it to deliver their financial targets."
(11) An analysis showed BBC Online spent £103m versus a budget of £109m in the year ended 31 March 2013, a 5.6% underspend.
(12) The U-turn led to a disastrous appearance on the BBC's Newsnight from then-Treasury minister Chloe Smith, who was unable to explain which departments would contribute to an underspend that would pay for the change.
(13) But so far applications are really low and the scheme may gift an underspend back to the Treasury.
(14) BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, speaking before the House of Lords communications committee today, said: "We think there will be an underspend.
(15) How can you possibly have as a number one priority cutting the deficit when you choose to spend an underspend in funding a tax cut, or failure to implement a tax rise which was scheduled?"
(16) The MoD will benefit from what the prime minister's spokesman described as "exceptional flexibility", allowing £1.6bn of its underspend to be "rolled over" into 2013-14 and 2014-15.
(17) Smith told presenter Jeremy Paxman that the freeze, which will cost £550m and reverses an increase planned for August, would be funded by underspends in government departments, but she refused to say which ones.
(18) Smith looked hesitant as she explained that the £550m cost of deferring the fuel duty would be paid for by £4bn of underspends in Whitehall departments last year.
(19) The Welsh government also lost a £200m underspend last year, which was taken back by the Treasury.
(20) On the public funding being made available, Alexander said: "Part of my job as chief secretary is to look at departmental budgets around government to identify areas where there are underspends or where projects haven't come to fruition on the right time scale.