To appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; SYN. peculate, misappropriate.
To appropriate wrongly (as by theft or embezzlement)
1. To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
2. Embezzle.
Taken for one's own use in violation of a trust; SYN. misappropriated.