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Examples of misappropriate
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To misappropriate a phrase, the Padres'success this year has been a bit catastrophic.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Fire principals and staff that misappropriate funds and are dishonest.
From the signonsandiego.com
However, I am not for the government having a bigger pool of funds from which to misappropriate.
From the dailyherald.com
The charges against Leary include conspiracy to misappropriate real estate title insurance escrow funds.
From the dailyherald.com
However, the law is clear that you can't misappropriate others'intellectual property for personal financial gain.
From the washingtontimes.com
Fiat money is a tool for government and financial elites to stealthily misappropriate wealth from productive sectors.
From the economist.com
Under the present system, parents can conceivably misappropriate the money that's supposed to go to their kids'shoes and clothes.
From the theatlantic.com
Granted, someone might innocently misappropriate someone else's memory of something trivial, even something relatively important.
From the orlandosentinel.com
That way, it ensures that a third party doesn't misappropriate any of the bank's proprietary processes or share them with another client bank.
From the businessweek.com
- Embezzle: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
- (misappropriated) embezzled: taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
- (misappropriation) embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
- In law, misappropriation is the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate or by any person with a ...
- To use something wrongly, or illegally; To embezzle
- (misappropriation) The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care
- (Misappropriation) The non-violent but criminal taking of some property. It may Includes theft, embezzlement, and fraud. Often it is used to refer to an employee taking the property of their employer.
- (MISAPPROPRIATION) [unfair competition]. A common-law form of unfair competition where the defendant has copied or appropriated some item or creation of the plaintiff that is not protected by either patent law, copyright law, trademark law, or any other traditional theory of exclusive rights.
- (Misappropriation) The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, temporary, or permanent use of a resident's (patient's) belongings or money without the resident's consent.
