Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To appropriate wrongly.
- transitive verb To appropriate dishonestly for one's own use; embezzle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To appropriate wrongly; put to a wrong use: as, to
misappropriate funds intrusted to one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
use something wrongly, or illegally - verb To
embezzle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
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Examples
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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Nowhere does the Act say that journalists may "misappropriate" trade secrets for personal or company gain.
Betanews Joe Wilcox 2010
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