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noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
noun wrongful borrowing
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English appropriation English misappropriation From mis- + appropriation.
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