Definitions

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  • verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

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  • a pleasure trip .... excursion, expedition informally it indicates a pleasure trip made at public's expense next word: malversate malversate --- appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; next word --- cull

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