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Embezzlement definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBEZ'ZLEMENT, n. The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use, the money or goods entrusted to one's care and management. An accurate account of the embezzlements of public money would form a curious history.
1. The thing appropriated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 see embezzle

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embezzlement Em*bez"zle*ment, n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Embezzlement is the crime of embezzling money.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Peculation.

Moby Thesaurus

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