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Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust..

Defalcate :: Defalcate (v. i.) To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.

Imbezzle :: Imbezzle (v. t.) See Embezzle.

Plunderage :: Plunderage (n.) The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.

Defrauder :: Defrauder (n.) One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

Peculate :: Peculate (v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

Defalcator :: Defalcator (n.) A defaulter or embezzler.

Cabbage :: Cabbage (v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer..

Disavow :: Disavow (v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime..

Embezzlement :: Embezzlement (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; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge..

Peculation :: Peculation (n.) The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement..

Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement..

Larceny :: Larceny (n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

Depeculation :: Depeculation (n.) A robbing or embezzlement.

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

Embezzled :: Embezzled (imp. & p. p.) of Embezzl.

Embezzler :: Embezzler (n.) One who embezzles.

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