peculator

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peculator - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Peculator \Pec"u*la`tor\, n. [L.]
     One who peculates. "Peculators of the public gold." --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]

peculator - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peculator
      n 1: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own
           use [syn: embezzler, defalcator, peculator]