If someone misappropriates money which does not belong to them, they take it without permission and use it for their own purposes.
例句
I took no money for personal use and have not misappropriated any funds whatsoever...我没有把钱款挪为己用,也没有挪用任何资金。A total of $500 million is alleged to have been misappropriated.据称总共有5亿美元被挪用。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
2. wrongful borrowing;
"his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"