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ˌmisappropriˈation
[mis-1 4.]
Appropriation to wrong uses.
1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1827 VIII. 367 Another class of women, who suffered by the violent misappropriation of the revenues of the Nabob. 1838W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xxv. 490 He made a strict inquisition into the funds of the military orders, in which there had been much waste and misappropriation. 1847–54in Webster. 1860Worcester cites Ch. Ob. 1922Joyce Ulysses 718 Forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money. 1952M. A. Elliott Crime in Mod. Society iii. 59 Misappropriation of funds of private character is seldom punished unless there is a glaring embezzlement. |