0 present participle of misappropriate
1 to steal something that you have been trusted to take care of and use it for your own good:
There is no scope for misappropriating money from the premium bond prize fund.
Was he aware that the person referred to has never been convicted of misappropriating funds in this or any other case?
These people are evicted and then claim that they are homeless, having induced that situation themselves through misappropriating the funds that they were given.
Here the public servant is taking the property of his master—the public—and misappropriating it to his own use, or the use of private enterprise.
These cases involve things like teachers making false claims about their qualifications; misappropriating school funds, helping pupils to cheat in exams, and similar forms of misconduct.
Perhaps the line is drawn between misappropriating the property of a company and merely making an incidental profit for which directors are liable to account to the company.
She was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined $10,000 for misappropriating $5.5 million.
He was sentenced for fourteen years for misappropriating 15,000 from a trust fund.
