Peculation

Quick meaning: Peculation is a noun meaning (law, chiefly historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

Meaning

(law, chiefly historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

Example Sentences

[The Chief Magistrate] might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression.

Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.

She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars.

Sir Pitt Crawley (named after the great Commoner) was the son of Walpole Crawley, first Baronet, of the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days .

Word Forms

• peculations

Synonyms for peculation

Depending on context, synonyms include embezzlement, misappropriation, defalcation, misapplication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embezzlement, misappropriation, defalcation, misapplication, misspeculation, abstraction.

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