Noun: misapplication mis,ap-li'key-shun
- Wrong use or application
"The misapplication of rules led to confusion"
- The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
"The accountant was charged with misapplication of client funds";
- embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misappropriation
Derived forms: misapplications
Type of: application, larceny, practical application, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving