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Definition of Embezzle

1. Verb. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use. "They embezzle the money "; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"

Definition of Embezzle

1. v. t. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

Definition of Embezzle

1. Verb. (legal business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from one's employer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embezzle

1. to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use [v -ZLED, -ZLING, -ZLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embezzle

Literary usage of Embezzle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The statute provides that "If any • « * agent, clerk or servant of any firm or person, or company or association of persons not incorporated, embezzle or ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"embellish, >\ t. enrich; spec, vary, emblazon, emblaze. embezzle, v. 1. misappropriate, misapply ... I. Referring to the taste: see BITTER. embezzle, v. ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The word "embezzle" and the words "fraudulently convert to his own use" mean the same ... "embezzle" includes in its meaning appropriation to one's own use, ..."

4. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1829)
"The legal distinction between larceny and embezzle- Distinction be- ment by persons in the employ of those whom they tw«'» larceny defraud, is this:—in the ..."

5. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"Here Harvest did not borrow money or embezzle the effects of the partnership. This is not a partnership transaction, but as distinct as if strangers had ..."

6. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"27. embezzle, to waste, squander ; ' His bills embezzled ', Dekker, Shoemakers' Holiday, i. ... embezzle ..."

7. The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Forty by James Manford Kerr, California (1921)
"fully, feloniously, and fraudulently embezzle, convert, and appropriate the ... 1 to the t, and add:] did embezzle and fraudulently convert to his own use ..."

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