私吞; [经] 侵吞，挪用，滥用
1. 侵吞：misapprehension误解 | misappropriation侵吞 | MISC各种各样的;杂项的
1. The US promulgated the Economic Espionage Act in 1996, making the theft or misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime under commercial espionage.
2. The court dropped the charge of " misappropriation of public funds " against the four.
3. Motorola accused Huawei of civil conspiracy and " threatened or actual " misappropriation of trade secrets and demanded the return of all proprietary trade secrets and damages.
4. Chairman Chung Mong Koo on charges of embezzlement and misappropriation of corporate funds.
5. The Handan People's Procuratorate charged Ren and Ma with embezzlement and charged Zhao and Zhang with misappropriation of public funds.
6. Most misappropriation cases take advantage of weaknesses in the brokerage firm's internal control systems.
7. He appeared in court in October this year on new charges of misappropriation of funds, bribery and forging VAT receipts.
8. Media reports have said prosecutors are likely to investigate possible misappropriation of government money used in his research.
9. What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi, and following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money.
10. It also said the preliminary investigation indicated that there was no evidence of misappropriation of the company's assets.
noun
1. wrongful borrowing
e.g. his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory
2. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Synonym: embezzlement peculation defalcation misapplication