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n. The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

n. The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.

n. The act of peculating; the crime of appropriating to one's own use money or goods intrusted to one's care; embezzlement; defalcation.

n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

"S peculation is rampant that Bush is preparing to nominate Sam Alito of the U.S."

theft    larceny    stealing    thievery    thieving   

peculation act   

plunderage    raid   

embezzlement   

embezzlement    extortion    thievery    mismanagement    bribery    rapine    dishonesty    malfeasance    racketeering    nepotism