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the misappropriation
noun
The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care.
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The misappropriation was approximately $47,000 over a six-month period.
It allegedly involves the misappropriation of one-third of the city's $1.2 billion social-security fund.
He blames the rationing in large measure on "the misappropriation of funds".
"We've seen a pattern," the misappropriation of health funds, "clearly being replicated elsewhere," he said.
Mr. Andersen called the misappropriation of his name "unsettling" and a "despicable act".
Some countries limit such statutes to the misappropriation of goods received by an employee "by virtue of his employment".
From its earliest days, the crime of theft has been understood to involve the misappropriation of things real and tangible.
He also tried to restore the value of tithes and prevent the misappropriation of churchyards for secular purposes.
An earlier scandal over the misappropriation of agency bailout funds for Bank Bali, moreover, left IBRA politically paralyzed.
The "misappropriation" concern aims at keeping the renegades from gaining access to I.R.A. bunkers whose locations they know.
Matt Furie, the frog's inventor and a Clinton supporter, was first bewildered by the misappropriation, and then infuriated.
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