embezzlement - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

English embezzlement

From embezzle + -ment.

embezzlement (countable and uncountable, plural embezzlements)

  1. (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
    Synonym: misappropriation
    He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.
    The case involved large-scale embezzlement.
    charged with embezzlement
    corporate embezzlement
    • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
      "Embezzlement, sir," commented Mr Carlyle icily. "But what is embezzlement on the top of wholesale murder!"
    • 1959 October, Michael Robbins, “The Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:
      A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.
    1. Such conversion from public property.
      Synonym: peculation
      Hypernyms: corruption, venality

the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner

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