Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To misuse funds; embezzle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Curtailed.
- To cut off; take away or deduct a part of; curtail: used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
- To be guilty of defalcation; default in one's accounts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
- intransitive verb To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
misappropriate funds ; toembezzle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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Jest like a criminal he skipped, an 'aimed to defalcate
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An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him.
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He has, more than another, the exalted sentiment of honor, but is lacking in the sense of simple honesty, and, circumstances favoring him, would defalcate and commit infamies which do not trouble his conscience, for he obeys without questioning the oscillations of his ideas, which are always impulsive.
Original Short Stories — Volume 09 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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He has, more than another, the exalted sentiment of honor, but is lacking in the sense of simple honesty, and, circumstances favoring him, would defalcate and commit infamies which do not trouble his conscience, for he obeys without questioning the oscillations of his ideas, which are always impulsive.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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No one can defalcate in this particular; no one can
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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What if all he says of the state of this balance were true? did not the same objections always lie to custom-house entries? do they defalcate more from the entries of 1766 than from those of 1754?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Vocabulary words in the lyrics to Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Execrescence acephalism conglutinate defalcate effigous embryologic hecatombic hypermetropicism inanition minatory sempiternal Impetuous Ritual are the rhythm section of Portal (interviewed here).
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This "Stimulus" Bill will defalcate the economy and defecate upon the people.
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Word For The Day, Thursday, February 5, 2009 - defalcate dictionaries ad nauseum, internet
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