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em·bez·zle    Audio Help   [em-bez-uhl] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -zled, -zling.
to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME embesilen < AF embeseiller to destroy, make away with, equiv. to em- em-1 + beseiller, OF beseiller to destroy < ?]

—Related forms
em·bez·zle·ment, noun
em·bez·zler, noun

—Synonyms misappropriate.
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em·bez·zle    Audio Help   (ěm-běz'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling, em·bez·zles
To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.


[Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + Old French besillier, to ravage.]

em·bez'zle·ment n., em·bez'zler n.
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embezzlement

noun
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else 

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embezzlement

The stealing of money entrusted to one's care: “The treasurer of the company embezzled a million dollars.”


[Chapter:] Business and Economics


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

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.

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