Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take (money one has been entrusted with) for personal use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weaken; diminish the power or extent of.
- To waste or dissipate in extravagance; misappropriate or misspend.
- To steal slyly; purloin; filch; make off with.
- To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as what is intrusted to one's care; apply to one's private use by a breach of trust, as a clerk or servant who misappropriates his employer's money or valuables.
- To confuse; amaze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust.
- transitive verb obsolete To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law, business To
steal ormisappropriate money that one has beentrusted with, especially to steal money from one'semployer .
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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Further down the translator appears to have mislaid the word embezzle:
Blue-stained translations? Michael Turton 2009
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Further down the translator appears to have mislaid the word embezzle:
Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009
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I'm going to give to agencies at the local level that don't slice off a goodly amount for "administrative fees" and have little opportunity to "embezzle" the money.
Desert Diva 2008
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Of course, I also receive a steady flow of letters from those who know they are contemplating doing something very bad indeed, but want me to endorse it: I'm planning to embezzle some money at work, but my company is stinking rich, and my boss wears unattractive jackets, and I myself am a very handsome fellow, so isn't it okay?
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Federal prosecutors say a Brunswick woman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for wire fraud in a plot to embezzle more than $700,000 from her employer.
Md. woman sentenced for wire fraud Washington Post editors 2010
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Are you saying that Socialism/Welfare states don't defraud, mislead, and embezzle?
First on the Ticker: RNC blasts Obama's stimulus in new video 2009
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One of the things he did was embezzle funds, more or less, to fund his romantic international tryst.
Business as usual for embattled South Carolina governor 2009
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In the first of many surprises, Luke pleads with his brother to consider the welfare of, and show charity to, those in debt to him; but he also urges his brother's gentlemen-apprentices to embezzle from him.
A Frugal Family Rich in Satire Paul Levy 2011
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I couldn't find any independent research that says yes, if a person has lousy credit, he or she is more likely to embezzle money or accept bribes.
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Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey said: "It cannot be that right at our door some people embezzle state funds and put them into their own pocket."
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