The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

Usage examples of embezzlement.

But Folsom did not appear to be a man to jump out of the slow simmer of embezzlement, even supposing it could be proved, into the hot fire of murder.

The President and General Manager, the Vice-president and Assistant General Manager, the Manager of the Foreign Department, the Assistant Chief of the Note-Teller Department, the Manager of the Iloilo Branch, the Manager of the Aparri Branch, as well as various subordinates, had all been prosecuted and convicted of embezzlement and other criminal offences.

My own tenuous guesses would have included child-molesting, embezzlement, the defrauding of widows.

Major Theodore Dobbins, age forty-six, dishonorably discharged for embezzlement, served three terms for fraud in England, one for robbery in Australia.

When he called at your house, he was ignorant, as yet, of the extent of the embezzlements, and was in hopes of being able to hush up the affair.

It combines James Dean, Porfiro Rubirosa and a teen-age bank clerk with a foolproof embezzlement scheme.

Although sensevise technology had essentially eliminated a lot of prostitution outside of Downtown, that still left protection rackets, extortion, clean water theft, blackmail, kidnapping, data theft, game-rigging, civic-service fraud, power theft, embezzlement, and vehicle theft, among others.

Some of the engineers and foremen were getting rich—by various forms of embezzlement of gov­ernment funds.

Like price fixing, tax evasion and embezzlement, psychedelic crimes seem to be a vice of the fatter classes.

Everything was photographed, but a glance at the private bank account revealed no evidence of embezzlement from the Winkler Bank—.

This person was at minimum aware of the tampering and the embezzlement, and very likely was more involved.

It's going to be a rough road tying him to corporate espionage, embezzlement, product tampering, much less murder.

He's involved in the product tampering, in the embezzlement, in every problem my family's had this year.

And then I told him what I'd learned, starting with the embezzlement and the relationship with Gavin, taking it right through to the quarrel the travel agent had heard.

Cam makes a joke about a politician who has recently been jailed for embezzlement, a man who has become a byword for untrustworthiness, and David makes a plea for forgiveness.