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misappropriating

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  • verb Present participle of misappropriate.

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Examples

  • Hawkins last month after she confessed to "misappropriating" some of his money and the subsequent investigation allegedly found she had been using the musician's credit and debit cards for herself.

    NME Features 2009

  • The day before Schmidt's speech, the Associated Press chairman, Dean Singleton, had charged internet companies with "misappropriating" his organisation's stories, arguing that "we can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories".

    Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • "misappropriating" funds from the company as he had taken home all the takings, the float and petty cash on February 25.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "misappropriating" material created by news organisations, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said that the industry should work with his company to tailor news to individual consumers.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • "misappropriating" some of the star's money and subsequent investigation allegedly found she had been using the musician's credit and debit cards for herself.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • Mr. Farkas, who built up Ocala, Fla.-based Taylor Bean into one of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders, was found guilty of misappropriating about $3 billion from banks such as Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Ala., and of trying to fraudulently obtain more than $550 million from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.

    U.S. Seeks 385 Years in Prison for Ex-Taylor Bean Chairman Jacqueline Palank 2011

  • Bush did not cause Katrina and he sure didn't cause New Orleans from misappropriating funds meant for levies for many years.

    Is oil spill 'Obama's Katrina'? 2010

  • The country's former speaker of parliament was arrested on charges of misappropriating government funds earlier this week.

    Obama Urges Gabon's President to Root Out Corruption 2011

  • First and foremost, the 1983 bill written by Ronald Reagan for DRG's (trying reading about it) began misappropriating funding for reimbursing quick fix treatments during emrgencies instead preventative treatments in support of overall lower costs.

    White House launches health care 'reality check' Web site 2009

  • Mr. Balkany previously had been accused in 2003 by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with misappropriating federal grant money, but those charges were dropped after he entered a deferred prosecution agreement in 2004, according to court records.

    Rabbi Given Four Years in Prison in SAC Extortion Attempt Chad Bray 2011

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