Crossword clues for misappropriation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misappropriation \Mis`ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746; from mis- (1) + appropriation.
Wiktionary
n. The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care.
WordNet
n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication]
wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
Wikipedia
In law, misappropriation is the unauthorized use of another's name, likeness, or identity without that person's permission, resulting in harm to that person.
Usage examples of "misappropriation".
President Towney is under arrest by civil warrant, charged with misappropriation of funds and tax evasion.
General Robinson and Colonel Bruder were being tried for misappropriation and more people were being dragged in.
Robinson was convicted of embezzling, misappropriation and foreign favors.
A planetary government, I might add, which has already requested your immediate court martial for mutiny, treason, insubordination, misappropriation of private property, and everything else snort of littering?
Sixth Cause of Action charges naked theft of characters and sequences to be found nowhere in material presented in discovery as from the public domain, in his Seventh Cause of Action which is against Kiester and his head writer Knize only, plaintiff claims misrepresentation, deceit and fraudulent conduct in the misappropriation and conversion of copyrighted material on deposit at certain public institutions, and of material obtained under false pretenses from plaintiff some years earlier.
Once the crisis was past and it was clear that Collos would live, it emerged that the two were Deryni, and that Dimitri, the other brother, had been an undersheriff in Vezaire, allegedly deposed for malfeasance and misappropriation of funds.
Have you heard any stories of gargantuan peculations, of murder and rape and misappropriation?
Charging misappropriation of the dog's name for commercial exploitation in captioning the mittens Genuine Simulated Spotskin, Wear 'Em With The Skinside Inside, the boy's lawyer, J Harret Ruth, cites the provision governing false description and false designation of origin in the Lanham Trade-Mark Act, claiming unspecified damages for trade-mark infringement and of the rights of publicity and privacy.
Robinson was convicted of embezzling, misappropriation and foreign favors.
Now that the opportunity for silver robberies was gone, and the tunnel misappropriations were history, they would be eager.
He could bear it no longer, and felt he must confess about the misappropriations of the church funds.