Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.

  2. (transitive)To embezzle.

    The accountant was found to have misappropriated funds over a period of three years.

More definitions
  • appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Examples

3 sentences

  1. He was arrested for misappropriating public funds.

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  2. Leonid misappropriated the company's money.

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  3. She misappropriated the company's funds.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

misappropriates, misappropriating, misappropriated, misappropriated
Base formmisappropriate · to misappropriate
3rd person singularmisappropriates
Present participlemisappropriating
Past simplemisappropriated
Past participlemisappropriated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisappropriate
he, she, itmisappropriates

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisappropriated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave misappropriated
he, she, ithas misappropriated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misappropriate

Synonyms

6 synonyms
take for wrong purposes:misuse
embezzle:defalcateembezzlepeculatesiphon
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmisappropriation
Derivedmisappropriator

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misadventuremisanthropemisanthropicmisanthropymisbehavemiscalculatemiscalculationmiscarriage

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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