embezzle
21embezzle — em·bez·zle || ɪm bezl v. illegally appropriate money entrusted to one s care, defraud …
22embezzle — verb steal or misappropriate (money placed in one s trust or under one s control). Derivatives embezzlement noun embezzler noun Origin ME (in the sense steal ): from Anglo Norman Fr. embesiler, from besiler, of unknown ultimate origin …
23embezzle — v. a. Appropriate to one s own use (what is intrusted), misappropriate, purloin, steal, come unlawfully by …
24embezzle — verb (I, T) to steal money from the place where you work: She had embezzled $10,000, by falsifying the accounts. embezzlement noun (U) embezzler noun (C) …
25embezzle — verb he s accused of embezzling donated funds Syn: misappropriate, steal, thieve, pilfer, purloin, appropriate, defraud someone of, siphon off, pocket, help oneself to; abstract; informal rob, rip off, skim, line one s pockets with, pinch …
26embezzle — v misappropriate, peculate, Law. defalcate, misapply, misuse; steal, rob, purloin, abstract; dip into the public purse, Inf. rob the till, Inf. have one s hand in the till; defraud, swindle, thieve, filch, cheat; pluck, fleece, rook, bilk …
27embezzle — em·bez·zle …
28embezzle — [ɪmˈbez(ə)l] verb [I/T] to steal money that you are trusted to look after as part of your work embezzlement noun [U] …
29embezzle — em•bez•zle [[t]ɛmˈbɛz əl[/t]] v. t. zled, zling to appropriate fraudulently to one s own use, as money entrusted to one s care • Etymology: 1375–1425; late ME < AF embeseiller to destroy, make away with = em I+beseiller, OF: to destroy… …
30embezzle — /ɛmˈbɛzəl / (say em bezuhl) verb (t) (embezzled, embezzling) to appropriate fraudulently to one s own use, as money or property entrusted to one s possession. {Middle English enbesyl(en), from Anglo French enbesiler, from en em 1 + beseler… …
