Embezzle

Quick meaning: Embezzle is a verb meaning (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

Meaning

(law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

Example Sentences

You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.

A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.

Word Forms

• embezzles
• embezzling
• embezzled

Synonyms for embezzle

Depending on context, synonyms include defalcate, misappropriate, peculate, skim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peculate, misappropriate, misuse, imbezzle, scam, smouch.

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