OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 33581

embezzle

/ɪmˈbɛz.əl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
defalcar • desfalcar • festinar • malversar
To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
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