Meaning | Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
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Synonyms | embezzle, peculate, misappropriate, malversate |
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Narrower | fiddle | commit fraud / fraud and steal from one's employer |
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Broader | steal, rip off, rip | Take without the owner's consent |
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Spanish | malversar |
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Catalan | malversar |
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Nouns | defalcation | the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else |
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defalcator | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use |