MISAPPLICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misapplication mean? 

• MISAPPLICATION (noun)
  The noun MISAPPLICATION has 2 senses:

1. wrong use or application

2. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

  Familiarity information: MISAPPLICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISAPPLICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrong use or application

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("misapplication" is a kind of...):

application; practical application (the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

misapply (apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

defalcation; embezzlement; misapplication; misappropriation; peculation

Hypernyms ("misapplication" is a kind of...):

larceny; stealing; theft; thievery; thieving (the act of taking something from someone unlawfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misapplication"):

raid (an attempt by speculators to defraud investors)

plunderage (the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard))