- embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
--1 is a kind of larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing
--1 has particulars: raid; plunderageDerived form: verb misappropriate1 - misappropriation - wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
--2 is a kind of borrowing, adoption