English > peculator: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use. |
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Synonyms | embezzler, defalcator |
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Broader | deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
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thief, stealer | A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
Spanish | defalcator, desfalcador, malversador |
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Catalan | defalcator, desfalcador, malversador |
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Verbs | peculate | appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
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