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词汇 misappropriated
释义 misappropriated
past simple and past participle ofmisappropriate
misappropriate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˌmɪs.əˈprəʊ.pri.eɪt/ us /ˌmɪs.əˈproʊ.pri.eɪt/
to steal something that you have been trusted to take care of and use it for your own good: 挪用;盗用;侵吞;私占
He is accused of misappropriating $30,000 to pay off gambling debts.他被控挪用了3万美元去偿付赌债。
Synonym
embezzle
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Examples of misappropriated


misappropriated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The word has been appropriated - or misappropriated, as some might say - by people in search of technical terms for specific concepts.
In more recent years, donor fatigue and reports of misappropriated food have led to crises in the camps, requiring frequent stopgap measures.
Information on bank accounts and credit card numbers can be misappropriated: money can be transferred out of the user's account or used to purchase goods and services.
In no case must such taxes and levies be misappropriated and spent on other areas than the environment.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is necessary to check quickly and efficiently whether vehicles presented to them for registration have been stolen, misappropriated or lost.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In 1995, we carried out a detailed investigation, which concluded that we had no evidence that any money had been misappropriated.
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Of these 1,437, 287 were irregularly occupied, misappropriated, or under repair; this total is being reduced as rapidly as possible.
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Most of the misappropriated stores have been recovered, and the value of what has been lost is not £3,000, but about £350.
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Money is taken which should have belonged to somebody else and is nefariously misappropriated.
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Does existing legislation allow sufficient control to avoid funds falling into the wrong hands or being misappropriated in any way?
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Perhaps even more worryingly, retrospective legislation may replace money that has been misappropriated, misspent or otherwise wasted.
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Allegations that public funds have been misappropriated are the subject of police investigations.
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Let us suppose that some of the people involved had misappropriated moneys.
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Over $17 million was misappropriated without detection by those with responsibility for monitoring the scheme.
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We spend enough time appointing social security snoopers to discover whether a fiver has been misappropriated by some unfortunate individual living on £40 or £50 per week.
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Hansard archive

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