Definitions
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).
Wiktionary
- n. law, business The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Etymologies
- embezzle + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And I forgot to throw in embezzlement and racketeering in there.”
“John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that embezzlement is “the most interesting of crimes” for an economist.”
“We have survived and overcome job loss, embezzlement from a trusted business partner, and an aggressive form of breast cancer.”
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“On purely my own ideals – embezzlement is stealing from someone else.”
“SGA in embezzlement scandal p2p news/p2pnet: - One and a quarter million dollars in songwriter royalties have been allegedly embezzled from the Songwriters Guild of America by its royalty manager, Marsha Aiken, and family members.”
“The Republican skel embezzlement is a “tax cut for the elite” coming out of your account, Republican skel embezzlement is “giving American dollars to oil corporations in the energy billâ€, Republican skel embezzlement is “allowing gas price gouge by oil corporationsâ€, Republican skel embezzlement is “giving the corporate banks a get richer bankruptcy billâ€.”
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“Sixty five-year-old Richard Bridges was charged with felony theft and forgery in connection with a long-term embezzlement scheme against a Simpson county church.”
“Even by the terrible standards of a scam named after section 419 of the Nigerian penal code, the case sets new benchmarks in size, long-term embezzlement, and the involvement of the victim against her better judgement.”
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“Party government's so-called embezzlement of pension funds and the apartheid debt burden, Van Schalkwyk said.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘embezzlement’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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Mirrored Vowels
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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