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misappropriation   (TTS Sound)

The noun misappropriation has 2 senses

• embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation -- (the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else)


• misappropriation -- (wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory")