单词 | misappropriated |
释义 | misappropriated (once / 53725 pages) adj WORD FAMILY misappropriate: misappropriated, misappropriates, misappropriating, misappropriation+/appropriate: appropriable, appropriated, appropriately, appropriateness, appropriates, appropriating, appropriation, appropriative, appropriator, misappropriate/appropriation: appropriations/appropriator: appropriators/misappropriation: misappropriations USAGE EXAMPLESFattah 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) Swiss investigators say they believe that as much as $4 billion was misappropriated. Wall Street Journal(Nov 18, 2016) adj taken for your own use in violation of a trust Syn embezzled illegal prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules |
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