misappropriate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they misappropriate | |
| he / she / it misappropriates | |
| past simple misappropriated | |
| past participle misappropriated | |
| -ing form misappropriating |
- misappropriate something
to take somebody else’s money or property for yourself, especially when they have trusted you to take care of it 私吞；挪用 He is accused of misappropriating money from the company’s pension fund. 他被指控挪用公司养老金。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMisappropriate is used with these nouns as the object:- fund