misapplication Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wrong use or application
  2. noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
    embezzlement; peculation; defalcation; misappropriation.

WordNet


Mis*ap`pli*ca"tion noun
Definitions
  1. A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913