0 past simple and past participle of misappropriate --
1 to steal something that you have been trusted to take care of and use it for your own good: --
We spend enough time appointing social security snoopers to discover whether a fiver has been misappropriated by some unfortunate individual living on £40 or £50 per week.
Over $17 million was misappropriated without detection by those with responsibility for monitoring the scheme.
Let us suppose that some of the people involved had misappropriated moneys.
Allegations that public funds have been misappropriated are the subject of police investigations.
Perhaps even more worryingly, retrospective legislation may replace money that has been misappropriated, misspent or otherwise wasted.
Does existing legislation allow sufficient control to avoid funds falling into the wrong hands or being misappropriated in any way?
Money is taken which should have belonged to somebody else and is nefariously misappropriated.
Most of the misappropriated stores have been recovered, and the value of what has been lost is not £3,000, but about £350.
