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:
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.
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.
Of these 1,437, 287 were irregularly occupied, misappropriated, or under repair; this total is being reduced as rapidly as possible.
Most of the misappropriated stores have been recovered, and the value of what has been lost is not £3,000, but about £350.
