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Embezzle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from one's employer.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust.

v. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To weaken; diminish the power or extent of.

To waste or dissipate in extravagance; misappropriate or misspend.

To steal slyly; purloin; filch; make off with.

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as what is intrusted to one's care; apply to one's private use by a breach of trust, as a clerk or servant who misappropriates his employer's money or valuables.

To confuse; amaze.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Word Usage

"I'm going to give to agencies at the local level that don't slice off a goodly amount for "administrative fees" and have little opportunity to "embezzle" the money."

Verb Form

embezzled embezzles embezzling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

steal

Hyponym

fiddle

Form

embezzler embezzlement

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

misappropriate waste misapply convert peculate