misappropriate
verb
[ mɪsəˈprəʊprɪeɪt ]
• dishonestly or unfairly take (something, especially money, belonging to another) for one's own use.
• "the report revealed that department officials had misappropriated funds"
Similar:
embezzle,
expropriate,
steal,
thieve,
pilfer,
swindle,
pocket,
help oneself to,
abscond with,
make off with,
skim,
swipe,
lift,
filch,
rip off,
snitch,
pinch,
half-inch,
nick,
whip,
knock off,
bone,
peculate,
defalcate,
