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