misappropriate
verb🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪt/
🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they misappropriate | 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪt/ 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪt/ |
| he / she / it misappropriates | 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪts/ 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪts/ |
| past simple misappropriated | 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle misappropriated | 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form misappropriating | 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪtɪŋ/ |
- 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. 他被指控挪用了公司退休金中的钱。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMisappropriate is used with these nouns as the object:- fund