MISAPPROPRIATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does misappropriation mean?
• MISAPPROPRIATION (noun)
The noun MISAPPROPRIATION has 2 senses:
1. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
2. wrongful borrowing
Familiarity information: MISAPPROPRIATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MISAPPROPRIATION (noun)
Meaning:
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
embezzlement; misappropriation; peculation; defalcation; misapplication
Hypernyms ("misappropriation" is a kind of...):
larceny; stealing; theft; thievery; thieving (the act of taking something from someone unlawfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misappropriation"):
raid (an attempt by speculators to defraud investors)
plunderage (the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard))
Meaning:
Wrongful borrowing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory
Hypernyms ("misappropriation" is a kind of...):
adoption; borrowing (the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source)
