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misappropriate

verb/ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprieɪt/

C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To take or use funds or property dishonestly for one's own benefit.

He was found to have misappropriated reserve funds to cover personal trading losses.

Similar: embezzle, divert, purloin

Topic: Corporate governance in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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