0 the act of stealing something that you have been trusted to take care of and using it for yourself:
He was charged with embezzlement and misappropriation of union funds.
These agreements may be ineffective in preventing misappropriation of technology.
1 the act of stealing something that you have been asked to take care of, and using it for yourself:
The firm discussed the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets on its company website.
The transactions were an attempt to conceal the misappropriation of money.
There were concerns about government misappropriation of private land.
The meeting dissolved, and the question of the misappropriation was never raised again.
In this paper, the effectiveness of espionage law in deterring the misappropriation of ideas in the process of being developed is the main policy instrument.
Another factor was the misappropriation of tax by tax collectors.
All the interviewed companies envisage intellectual information and technologies as the fundamental source of their economic activity and as the first target of misappropriation.
These practices can be put down to local resistance to democratic decentralisation and to the misappropriation of the expected profits.
