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MISAPPROPRIATION

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• 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.

• MISAPPROPRIATION (noun)

Sense 1

misappropriation ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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))

Sense 2

misappropriation ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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)

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face."
(English proverb)
"In my homeland I possess one hundred horses, yet if I go, I go on foot."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts."
(Corsican proverb)

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larceny definition
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