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Definition Of Embezzlement
Stealing money, often from employer
Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer.
“charges of fraud and embezzlement.
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Origin
early 15c., “make away with money or property of another, steal,” from Anglo-French enbesiler “to steal, cause to disappear”
Example Sentences
- In a high point of view, it was simple embezzlement; it was little better than a form of swindling.
- He was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of thirty-three hundred dollars from the firm which employed him.
- It is as certain as anything can be that George Horbury never lost a penny by embezzlement or, indeed, in any other way.
- Her husband abused her, and before they had been married a year he ran away to escape a charge of embezzlement.
- This might be a case of embezzlement such as he had before known among his younger patrons.
- Try as the committee might to keep the matter secret, the embezzlement would leak out and afford sensational copy for the papers.
- Favoral appeared to me singularly calm for a man charged with embezzlement and forgery.
- Here obtaining goods under false pretenses and embezzlement are commended by God himself.
- Embezzlement is the appropriation, by a clerk or servant, to himself, of money or property put into his hands in trust.
- Already were seen the effects of the wealth that was pouring into Italy in the embezzlement of the public money by the Scipios.
Synonyms Of Embezzlement
- Misuse
- Misapplication
- Misappropriation
- Fraud
- Larceny
- Theft
Opposite/Antonyms Of Embezzlement
- Return
- Reimbursement
- Pay
- Compensation
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