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EMBEZZLE

Pronunciation (US):

• EMBEZZLE (verb)
The verb EMBEZZLE has 1 sense:

1. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Familiarity information: EMBEZZLE used as a verb is very rare.

• EMBEZZLE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

defalcate; embezzle; malversate; misappropriate; peculate

Context example:

The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family

Hypernyms (to "embezzle" is one way to...):

steal (take without the owner's consent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "embezzle"):

fiddle (commit fraud and steal from one's employer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They embezzle the money

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