misappropriate
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definition
verb
department officials had misappropriated funds
(of a person) dishonestly or unfairly take (something, especially money, belonging to another) for one's own use.
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In this way, the officials allegedly find an opportunity to 'misappropriate' public funds by preparing bogus muster rolls.
When funds are 'misappropriated' from a church, most parishioners express shock that something of this nature could ever occur in their church.
He said the two men were former government employees who had 'misappropriated' funds, but who now represented themselves as opposition figures.
It was essentially a sort of collaboration across both things and I completely reject the view that I was 'misappropriating' money.
We'll hear from critics who say the 'misappropriation' of oil revenue is hampering the country's reconstruction.
They also want a mechanism for exonerating MPs from any accusation that they might be 'misappropriating' public funds.
Suspecting that university officials were 'misappropriating' the funds, students took over the catering.
Most of the money, however, was 'misappropriated' .
He talked about the Government 'misappropriating' money, which is theft.
Going after these gains would help, but those ‘smart enough’ to have 'misappropriated' company funds are also likely to have made recovery difficult.
She needed to apply strict accounting principles and practices to detect fraud and 'misappropriations' of public funds.
He welcomed calls by clubs to have the accounts audited to verify claims that his executive had 'misappropriated' some union funds but advised the treasurer to follow the right procedure.
It is disappointing that hard-earned public funds are 'misappropriated' .
Ricardo has 'misappropriated' your money and abandoned you here.
Government has warned that it will deal firmly with officers involved in thefts and 'misappropriation' of funds meant for community projects.
The ministry audit found no evidence of fraud or 'misappropriation' of government funds and no undo influence or inappropriate relationship with ministers.
If a company's money is 'misappropriated' by a director and paid into a bank account with a nil balance, however, tracing is possible.
Several interviewers have found her house full of food, but she claims the food is for her husband, who once went to prison for 'misappropriating' a pension fund.
This coincided with the dismissal of the Vice-Chancellor, his deputy, and the bursar, who had 'misappropriated' University funds.
The document warned that officials who violated rules in order to expand relocation, who misused government power or who 'misappropriated' compensation funds would be severely punished.
After the high increase in council tax and an exceptional increase in essential services costs in rural areas, to give £1m or even £0.5m of our taxes to this project is 'misappropriating' our money.
He and three other investors later sued claiming that their funds had been 'misappropriated' .
Now that the President himself has been fingered as one of those who benefited from the 'misappropriation' , he does owe the public an accounting.
Where that money went and why it was 'misappropriated' remain mysteries.
Certainly, no one is accusing the President of 'misappropriating' the money or keeping it his personal bank account for any other reason than he says: to avoid red tape and make it easier to cash if or when it is needed.
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