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What does misappropriation mean?

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Noun
  1. The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care.
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You know that an unknown amount of money is lost through fraud or misappropriation.
You show me where they found that forensic audit's misappropriation of funds.
The defence cannot be raised in the context of an action in trover, which is based on the misappropriation of a chattel.
We'll hear from critics who say the misappropriation of oil revenue is hampering the country's reconstruction.
In the case of a conspiracy to defraud by wholescale misappropriation it would be absurd to argue that the conspirators did not intend just that.
Now that the President himself has been fingered as one of those who benefited from the misappropriation, he does owe the public an accounting.

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