meaning of embezzle
1. To appropriate fraudulently to ones own use, as property intrusted to ones care; to apply to ones private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.
2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
3. appropriate as property entrusted to ones care fraudulently to ones own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy
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Related Words
embezzle | embezzled | embezzlement | embezzler |
