HyperDic: peculate

English > 1 sense of the word peculate:
VERBpossessionpeculate, embezzle, defalcate, misappropriate, malversateappropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
English > peculate: 1 sense > verb 1, possession
MeaningAppropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody
Synonymsembezzle, defalcate, misappropriate, malversate
Narrowerfiddlecommit fraud / fraud and steal from one's employer
Broadersteal, rip off, ripTake without the owner's consent
Spanishmalversar
Catalanmalversar
Nounspeculationthe fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
peculatorsomeone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

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