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Webster 1913 Edition
Embezzle
Em-bez′zle
(ĕm-bĕz′z’l)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Embezzled
(ĕm-bĕz′z’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embezzling
.] 1.
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 trust2.
To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
[Obs.]
To
embezzle
our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.
Webster 1828 Edition
Embezzle
EMBEZ'ZLE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use what is entrusted to one's care and management. It differs from stealing and robbery in this, that the latter imply a wrongful taking of another's goods,but embezzlement denotes the wrongful appropriation and use of what came into possession by right. It is not uncommon for men entrusted with public money to embezzle it.2.
To waste; to dissipate in extravagance.When thou hast embezzled all thy store.
Definition 2024
embezzle
embezzle
English
Verb
embezzle (third-person singular simple present embezzles, present participle embezzling, simple past and past participle embezzled)
- (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
- 1903, H.G. Wells, Twelve Stories and a Dream
- You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
- 1903, H.G. Wells, Twelve Stories and a Dream
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to steal money that one has been trusted with
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