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misappropriation

[ mis-uh-proh-pree-ey-shuhn ]

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noun

wrongful use, especially the dishonest or inappropriate use of others’ money, data, etc.:
He pled guilty to multiple counts of misappropriation of public funds and falsifying public documents, and received a four-year prison sentence.
Database owners are concerned about the possible commercial misappropriation of their products.

In 2007, Burkle sued Follieri, the former boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, for misappropriation of funds.

The funds ought to be applied to the general good; and if they're only spent on a few, I call it misappropriation of a trust.

But no one has ever proposed to punish or restrain this sort of misappropriation by law.

Perhaps it was the check for the misappropriation of which he afterward found his way to the convict lines of Malacca.

And then came the news that Uncle Fred had been dismissed, all on account of drink and gambling and misappropriation of funds.

The Penal Code simply makes dishonest misappropriation a crime in itself.

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