Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
em·bez·zlePronunciation:
im-'be-z&lFunction:
transitive verbInflected Forms:
em·bez·zled;
em·bez·zlingEtymology: Anglo-French
embeseiller to make away with, from
en-, prefix stressing completion +
beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy
: to convert (property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use —compare
DEFALCATE —
em·bez·zle·ment noun —
em·bez·zler noun