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 Stealing abscond abscond with someone/something aggravated burglary anti-burglar anti-burglary eavesdrop hot-wire housebreaking jemmy jimmy job kleptomania piratically plunder poach poaching porch piracy rustle rustling snaffle Related wordmisappropriation Examples of misappropriatedmisappropriated 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of these 1,437, 287 were irregularly occupied, misappropriated, or under repair; this total is being reduced as rapidly as possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of the misappropriated stores have been recovered, and the value of what has been lost is not £3,000, but about £350. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Money is taken which should have belonged to somebody else and is nefariously misappropriated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does existing legislation allow sufficient control to avoid funds falling into the wrong hands or being misappropriated in any way? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps even more worryingly, retrospective legislation may replace money that has been misappropriated, misspent or otherwise wasted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Allegations that public funds have been misappropriated are the subject of police investigations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us suppose that some of the people involved had misappropriated moneys. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Over $17 million was misappropriated without detection by those with responsibility for monitoring the scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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