0 to steal something that you have been trusted to take care of and use it for your own good:
1 to steal something that you have been trusted to manage and use it for your own benefit:
2 to steal something that you have been asked to take care of, and use it for yourself:
The word has been appropriated - or misappropriated, as some might say - by people in search of technical terms for specific concepts.
In more recent years, donor fatigue and reports of misappropriated food have led to crises in the camps, requiring frequent stopgap measures.
Information on bank accounts and credit card numbers can be misappropriated: money can be transferred out of the user's account or used to purchase goods and services.
A voluntary scheme will not cover the majority of tenants' deposits, let alone the minority of unprofessional landlords who misappropriate tenants' deposits.
In no case must such taxes and levies be misappropriated and spent on other areas than the environment.
It is necessary to check quickly and efficiently whether vehicles presented to them for registration have been stolen, misappropriated or lost.
In 1995, we carried out a detailed investigation, which concluded that we had no evidence that any money had been misappropriated.
The out-and-out criminals misappropriate service charges and sinking funds.
