| Definition of 'embezzlement' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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| Definition of 'embezzlement' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) embezzlement
the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge
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Sense: to take dishonestly (money that has been entrusted to oneself)
As the firm's accountant, he embezzled $20,000 in two years.
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 Afrikaans: verduistering |
 Arabic: إخْتِلاس |
 Bulgarian: злоупотреба |
 Brazilian: fraude |
 Czech: zpronevěra |
 German: die Veruntreuung |
 Danish: underslæb; misbrug af bet |
 Greek: κατάχρηση |
 Spanish: malversación (de fondos) |
 Estonian: omastamine |
 Farsi: اختلاس |
 Finnish: kavallus |
 French: détournement de fonds |
 Hebrew: מְעִילָה |
 Hindi: गबन |
 Croatian: pronevjera |
 Hungarian: sikkasztás |
 Indonesian: penggelapan |
 Icelandic: fjárdráttur |
 Italian: appropriazione indebita |
 Japanese: 使い込み |
 Korean: 횡령 |
 Lithuanian: pasisavinimas, išeikvojim |
 Latvian: (naudas) piesavināšanās |
 Malay: penggelapan |
 Dutch: verduistering |
 Norwegian: underslag |
 Polish: malwersacja, sprzeniewier |
 Persian: اختلاس |
 Pashto: اختلاس |
 Portuguese: peculato |
 Romanian: delapidare |
 Russian: растрата |
 Slovak: sprenevera |
 Slovenian: poneverba |
 Serbian: utaja |
 Swedish: förskingring |
 Thai: การยักยอกเงิน |
 Turkish: zimmetine geçirme, aşırma |
 Taiwanese: 侵吞財物，盜用公款 |
 Ukrainian: розтрата; розкрадення |
 Urdu: غبن |
 Vietnamese: sự biển thủ |
 Chinese: 盗用公款 |
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