embezzlement
Meaning of embezzlement
noun
- theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer.
charges of fraud and embezzlement
Information about embezzlement
- It is a name.
- The plural form of embezzlement is: embezzlements.
- Languages in which embezzlement is used:
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Hyphenation of embezzlement
em-bez-zle-ment
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- embezzlement is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
embezzlement synonyms
Meaning peculation:
peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation
Meaning the action or crime of stealing:
Meaning take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it:
Meaning take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force:
Meaning the action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force:
Meaning the action of stealing; theft:
Meaning steal (things of little value):
Meaning the action of stealing things of little value:
Meaning the action of appropriating something:
Meaning the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events:
Meaning use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions:
Meaning wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain:
Meaning theft of personal property. In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968:
Meaning pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way:
Meaning hit or try to hit with a swinging blow:
Meaning raise to a higher position or level:
Meaning the removal of a substance from the surface of a liquid:
Meaning take (something) for oneself, typically quickly or without permission:
Meaning grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb:
Meaning make a nick or nicks in:
Meaning a thrashing or beating with a whip or similar implement:
Meaning try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods:
Meaning steal (something):
Translation of embezzlement
- Italian: appropriazione
- Spanish: desfalco, apropiación
- French: détournement
- Portuguese: apropriação
Words that rhyme with embezzlement
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