Bezzle

Quick meaning: Bezzle is a verb meaning (economics) The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.

Meaning

(economics) The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.

More Meanings

1. (economics) The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle.
2. (economics) The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from an unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot.
4. (obsolete) To drink to excess; to revel.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To squander.

Example Sentences

That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.

Uber is a bezzle ("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"). Every bezzle ends.

Word Forms

• bezzles
• bezzling
• bezzled

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