Definitions
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- verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
 
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a pleasure trip .... excursion, expedition informally it indicates a pleasure trip made at public's expense next word: malversate malversate --- appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; next word --- cull
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