The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 14 letter word MISAPPROPRIATE
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More clues leading to the result MISAPPROPRIATE
- Motorway speed limits fool rugby player? One’s held in nick
- Most of film fitting in pocket
- Is involved in plan for getting pirate out of nick
- Nick, married, is suitable
- Following endless failure, apt to embezzle
- Nick is apt to support Mike
- Nick is essential to plan to support one in charge
- Medicine, at first, is right to take
- Rob‘s pronouncement of a woman who’s suitable?
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The straight part
We know that "nick (as in steal)" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case nick (as in steal) = misappropriate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MISAPPROPRIATE mean?
MISAPPROPRIATE verb- To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
- To embezzle.