To Appropriate

1. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
2. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
3. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
4. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

(to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; take or steal

(to set apart for): allocate, earmark; set apart