HyperDic: peculator

English > 1 sense of the word peculator:
NOUNperson peculator, embezzler, defalcatorsomeone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
English > peculator: 1 sense > noun 1, person
Meaningsomeone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use.
Synonymsembezzler, defalcator
Broaderdeceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slickersomeone who leads you to believe something that is not true
thief, stealerA criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
Spanishdefalcator, desfalcador, malversador
Catalandefalcator, desfalcador, malversador
Verbspeculateappropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

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