misappropriation

Noun
  1. The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else (synset 100778229)
    is a type of: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
    subtypes:
    • raid - an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
    • plunderage - the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard)
    same as: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation
  2. Wrongful borrowing (synset 100085715)
    "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
    is a type of: adoption, borrowing - the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

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