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Adjective: misappropriated  `mi-su'prow-pree`ey-tid
  1. Taken for your own use in violation of a trust
    "the banker absconded with misappropriated funds"
    - embezzled
Verb: misappropriate  `mi-su'prow-pree`eyt
  1. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
    - embezzle, defalcate, peculate, malversate

See also: illegal, misappropriation

Type of: steal

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