misappropriation

Other forms of misappropriation

plural

misappropriations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about misappropriation

What does misappropriation mean?

misappropriation means "the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in misappropriation?

misappropriation has 6 syllables: mis-ap-pro-pri-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌmɪsəˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for misappropriation?

Close synonyms include embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is misappropriation a common word?

misappropriation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with misappropriation?

133 words rhyme with misappropriation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.