'Peculation' definitions:
Definition of 'peculation'
(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 'Peculation'
From: GCIDE
- Peculation \Pec`u*la"tion\, 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. [1913 Webster]
- Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. --Burke. [1913 Webster]