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misappropriation has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for misappropriation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
wrongful borrowing
“his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory”