Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To purloin or make away with; embezzle.
- To consume a large quantity of, as food or drink; waste or squander, as money.
- To drink to excess.
- noun A debauchee; a sot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To plunder; to waste in riot.
- intransitive verb obsolete To drink to excess; to revel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
drink to excess; torevel .
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Examples
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This inventory - it should perhaps be called the bezzle - amounts at any moment to many millions of dollars.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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Galbraith called the undiscovered and therefore unfelt loss “the bezzle.”
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"There's money to bezzle with, if there's money for nothing else."
Sons and Lovers 1913
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"There's money to bezzle with, if there's money for nothing else."
Sons and Lovers 1907
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Sell these MBS as "safe" to credulous investors, institutions, town councils in Norway, etc., i.e. "the bezzle" on a global scale.
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2010
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Sell these MBS as "safe" to credulous investors, institutions, town councils in Norway, etc., i.e. "the bezzle" on a global scale.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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"And maybe they're hoping we'll buy their bezzle."
MetaFilter 2009
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Under these circumstances the rate of embezzlement grows, the rate of discovery falls off, and the bezzle increases rapidly.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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Stop "the bezzle" and punish the fraudsters across the board and clamp down on all manner of fraud in the future with enforcement of the law being the primary driver of policy.
unknown title 2009
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Galbraith called the undiscovered and therefore unfelt loss "the bezzle."
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Take "bezzle" – JK Galbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it."
Pluralistic: 08 Nov 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow 2023
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Uber is a "bezzle" – JK Galbraith's name for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." Uber is a scam and it will never be profitable.
Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow 2023
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