Embezzlement

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of embezzling; specifically, the act by which a clerk, servant, or other person occupying a position of trust fraudulently appropriates to his own use the money or goods intrusted to his care; a criminal conversion; the appropriation to one's self by a breach of trust of the property or money of another; “a sort of statutory larceny, committed by servants and other like persons where there is a trust reposed, and therefore no trespass, so that the act would not be larceny at the common law” (Bishop).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    theft    larceny    stealing    thievery    thieving   
    Cross Reference
    larceny    usury    forgery    quackery    fraud   
    Hyponym
    plunderage    raid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    launder    peculation    bribery    arson    extortion    perjury    forgery    subornation    kidnap    mismanagement