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Defalcation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEFALCATION,. N.
1. The act of cutting off, or deducting a part; deduction; diminution; abatement; as, let him have the amount of his rent without defalcation.
2. That which is cut off; as, this loss is a defalcation from the revenue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the sum of money that is misappropriated
2: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. archaic deduction 2. the act or an instance of embezzling 3. a failure to meet a promise or an expectation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. formal 1 Law a a misappropriation of money. b an amount misappropriated. 2 a shortcoming. 3 defection. Etymology: ME f. med.L defalcatio (as DEFALCATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Defalcation De`fal*ca"tion, n. [LL. defalcatio: cf. F. d['e]falcation.] 1. A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. --Abbott. 2. That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated. 3. An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Diminution, abatement, reduction, deduction, discount. 2. Deficiency, deficit, default, shortage, short-coming, falling short. 3. Fraudulent shortage (in accounts), defaulting, breach of trust, embezzlement.

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, abuse of office, arrear, arrearage, arrears, befoulment, break, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, decline, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, defilement, delinquency, desecration, discontinuity, diversion, embezzlement, failing, failure, falling short, fault, fouling, gap, hiatus, imperfection, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, interval, lack, lacuna, laxness, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, missing link, misusage, misuse, need, negligence, omission, outage, paucity, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, poverty, profanation, prostitution, remissness, scant, scantiness, scarceness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, slackness, slump, ullage, underage, violation, want, wantage