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misappropriate

misappropriate : to appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully (as by theft or embezzlement) mis·ap·pro·pri·a·tion [-prō-prē-ā-shən] n ...

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English)

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English) (26 & 27 Vict.c.103), provides that servants taking their masters' corn, etc., without authority, for giving the same to their masters' horses, etc., shall not be guilty of felony, but be liable to imprison-ment....

defalcation

defalcation [earlier, deduction, lessening, shortcoming, from Medieval Latin defalcatio discounting of debt, from defalcare to cut down, deduct, from Latin de- away from + falc-, falx sickle] 1 : failure to account for or pay over money that has been entrusted to one's care ;also : an instance of such failure compare embezzle, misappropriate NOTE: Defalcation does not necessarily involve culpability or misconduct. 2 : a failure to meet a promise or expectation [the school committee's s did not end with its refusal to submit a desegregation plan "S. L. Lynch"] ...

embezzle

embezzle em·bez·zled em·bez·zling [Anglo-French embeseiller to make away with, from en-, prefix stressing completion + beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy] : to convert (property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use compare defalcate em·bez·zle·ment n em·bez·zler n ...

fund

fund 1 : a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective cli·ent security fund : a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys' misappropriation of funds common trust fund : an in-house trust fund established by a bank trust department to pool the assets of many small trusts for greater diversification in investing executor fund : a fund established in estate planning to provide for the payment of final expenses by an executor joint wel·fare fund : a fund that is established by collective bargaining to provide health and welfare benefits to employees and that is jointly administered by representatives of labor and management paid-in fund : a reserve cash fund in lieu of a capital stock account set up by mutual insurance companies to cover unforeseen losses sink·ing fund : a fund set up and accumulated by regular deposits for paying off the principal on a debt...

lapping

lapping [gerund of lap to overlap] : the practice of misappropriating entrusted funds and then covering up the act by using other entrusted funds or funds subsequently received in a continuous process of concealment ...

peculation

peculation [Late Latin peculation- peculatio, from Latin peculari to embezzle, from peculium private property, from pecu cattle] : misappropriation esp. of public funds ...

reverse palming off

reverse palming off : the wrongful misappropriation of another's goods or services by removing the correct name or trademark and selling or offering the goods under a different name ...

trade secret

trade secret : a formula, process, device, or item of information used by a business that has economic value because it is not generally known or easily discovered by observation or examination and for which reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy have been made NOTE: Trade secrets are a form of intellectual property. Many states have enacted laws which create an action for damages or injunctive relief against misappropriation of trade secrets by improper means. Information contained in a patent is not protected as a trade secret. ...

Misappropriate

To appropriate wrongly to use for a wrong purpose...

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