'Embezzlement' definitions:
Definition of 'embezzlement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]
Definition of 'Embezzlement'
From: GCIDE
- Embezzlement \Em*bez"zle*ment\, n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'embezzlement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstraction,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- annexation,
- appropriation,
- befoulment,
- boosting,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- corrupt administration,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defilement,
- desecration,
- diversion,
- filching,
- fouling,
- fraud,
- graft,
- larceny,
- liberation,
- lifting,
- maladministration,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misemployment,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misusing,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- poaching,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- purloining,
- scrounging,
- shoplifting,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- violation