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Misappropriation   /mˌɪsəprˌoʊpriˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Misappropriation

noun
1.
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.  Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation.
2.
Wrongful borrowing.






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"Misappropriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... for thus bringing him back home; but the real reason, as I came to understand later, was quite different. He regarded the marriage of a friend as a personal deprivation, and the bride as the chief figure in the conspiracy. After my defection, or misappropriation, he solaced himself by trying to make one or two other friendships. When these friends married in turn, like process produced like results. These men, however, he threw overboard completely; in my case, he showed, after a while, some relenting, and ultimately even ...
— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller



Words linked to "Misappropriation" :   adoption, larceny, stealing, thieving, thievery, theft, raid, borrowing, misappropriate, plunderage



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