'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]

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