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 synonym embezzle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