Embezzle

embezzled

taken for ones own use in violation of a trust of money as the banker absconded with embezzled payroll the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars...

The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted as the embezzlement by a clerk of his employers money embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge...

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...

embezzle

embezzle em·bez·zled em·bez·zling [Anglo-French embeseiller to make away with, from en-, prefix stressing completion + beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy] : to convert (property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use compare defalcate em·bez·zle·ment n em·bez·zler n ...

Embezzler

One who embezzles...

Larceny

Larceny [fr. larcin, Fr.; latrocinium, Lat.], contracted from latrociny, the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal, with intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation:(1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the offence there must be an unlawful taking, which implies that the goods must pass from the possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee), and without his consent; where there is, then, no change of possession, or a change of it by consent, or a change from the possession of a person without title to that of the true owner, there cannot be a larceny. As to the difference between property parted with by the owner of his own free will, however fradulently influenced, in other words, between property 'entrusted' and 'possession by a trick,' see Oppenheimer v. Frazer, (1907) 2 KB 50, and Lake v. S...

Theft

Theft, larceny, which see.The felonious taking and removing of another's personal property with intent of depriving the true owner of it; larceny 2 Broadly, any act or instance of stealing including larceny, burglary, embezzle-ment and false pretenses, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1487....

convert

convert 1 a : to change from one form or use to another b : to exchange (property) for another esp. of a different kind [if property…is compulsorily or involuntarily ed "Internal Revenue Code"] ;esp : to exercise the right of conversion by exchanging (preferred shares or bonds) for common stock 2 : to appropriate (another's property) by conversion [the bailee ed the goods to his own use] see also embezzle con·vert·er n con·ver·ti·ble [kən-vər-tə-bəl] adj ...

peculation

peculation [Late Latin peculation- peculatio, from Latin peculari to embezzle, from peculium private property, from pecu cattle] : misappropriation esp. of public funds ...

defalcate

defalcate -cat·ed -cat·ing : to commit defalcation compare embezzle de·fal·ca·tor [-kā-tər] n ...

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