| 单词 | misappropriate |
| 释义 | misappropriate (once / 16016 pages) v When you misappropriate something, you steal it, or otherwise use it in a way its owner didn't intend. You might hear the phrase "to misappropriate funds" on the news — usually what this means is that someone who has access to money at work has stolen some of it. A banker might misappropriate money, for example, paying himself a bonus, or the manager of a charity might misappropriate donations, using them to buy herself a new car. Misappropriate combines the prefix mis, "bad or wrong," and appropriate, "take possession of." WORD FAMILYmisappropriate: misappropriated, misappropriates, misappropriating, misappropriation+/appropriate: appropriable, appropriated, appropriately, appropriateness, appropriates, appropriating, appropriation, appropriative, appropriator, misappropriate/appropriation: appropriations/appropriator: appropriators/misappropriation: misappropriations USAGE EXAMPLESOn Monday, the Ministry of Finance criticized some local governments for misappropriating funds earmarked for smog control. Reuters(Dec 12, 2016) Fattah misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign, charity and taxpayer money in multiple unrelated schemes stretching over several years, according to prosecutors. Reuters(Dec 12, 2016) “Williams & Connolly . . . took this well-established and open practice of spending and turned it on Elwood suggesting that he had misappropriated company funds.” Washington Post(Nov 20, 2016) v appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use Syn|Hypo|Hyper defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate fiddle commit fraud and steal from one's employer steal take without the owner's consent |
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