embezzle+money

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• embezzle money — fraudulently appropriate sums of money entrusted to one s care, misappropriate funds, defraud …   English contemporary dictionary

• Embezzle — Em*bez zle ([e^]m*b[e^]z z l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embezzled} ([e^]m*b[e^]z z ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Embezzling}.] [Norm. F. embeseiller to destroy; cf. OF. besillier to ill treat, ravage, destroy. Cf. {Bezzle}.] 1. To appropriate fraudulently to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• embezzle — em‧bez‧zle [ɪmˈbezl] verb [intransitive, transitive] LAW ACCOUNTING if someone embezzles money from the company or organization they work for, they steal it, perhaps over a period of time, and use it for themselves: • An American banker, accused …   Financial and business terms

• embezzle — [v] steal money, often from employer abstract, appropriate, defalcate, filch, forge, loot, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate, pilfer, purloin, put hand in cookie jar*, put hand in till*, skim, thieve; concept 139 Ant. compensate, give,… …   New thesaurus

• embezzle — ► VERB ▪ steal or misappropriate (money placed in one s trust or under one s control). DERIVATIVES embezzlement noun embezzler noun. ORIGIN Old French embesiler, from besiler destroy, maltreat …   English terms dictionary

• embezzle — [em bez′əl, imbez′əl] vt. embezzled, embezzling [ME embesilen < Anglo Fr enbesiler < OFr embesillier < en (see EN 1) + besillier, to destroy] to steal (money, etc. entrusted to one s care); take by fraud for one s own use embezzlement n …   English World dictionary

• embezzle — verb /əmˈbɛzəl/ To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from ones employer. You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle.… …   Wiktionary

• money — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ There is big money in golf for the top players. ▪ easy ▪ He started stealing as a way of making easy money. ▪ bonus …   Collocations dictionary

• embezzle — UK [ɪmˈbez(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms embezzle : present tense I/you/we/they embezzle he/she/it embezzles present participle embezzling past tense embezzled past participle embezzled to steal money that people trust you… …   English dictionary

• embezzle — verb Embezzle is used with these nouns as the object: ↑fund, ↑money …   Collocations dictionary

• embezzle — /ɪm bez(ə)l/ verb to use illegally money which is not yours, or which you are looking after for someone ● He was sent to prison for six months for embezzling his clients’ money …   Dictionary of banking and finance