The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commingle \Com*min"gle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Commingled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Commingling.]
To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to
blend.
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
n. A mixing or mixture. vb. (present participle of commingle English)
Wikipedia
In law, commingling is a breach of trust in which a fiduciary mixes funds that he holds in the care of a client with his own funds, making it difficult to determine which funds belong to the fiduciary and which belong to the client. This raises particular concerns where the funds are invested, and gains or losses from the investments must be allocated. In such circumstances, the law usually presumes that any gains run to the client and any losses run to the fiduciary who is guilty of commingling. As one source puts it, "[i]n a pejorative sense, commingling is the special vice of fiduciaries (trustee, agents, lawyers, etc.) in failing to keep a beneficiary's money separate from the fiduciary's own money".
Commingling is particularly an issue in case of bankruptcy of the fiduciary. Funds held in care are not the fiduciary's property, and the client is not a creditor. So in case of bankruptcy, if the funds have been properly kept separate, they can easily be returned to the client. If, however, the funds have been commingled, the client is potentially subject to becoming entangled in the bankruptcy proceedings, and there may not be sufficient funds to pay the client back.
Usage examples of "commingling".
David Cronenberg film,' Shep said, which Dylan took to be a confirmation that teleportation and therefore the catastrophic commingling of atomic particles was not an issue.
Formlessly, before I began to shape them, the fragrances poured into me: the mournful decaying fumes of animal faeces in the gardens of the Frere Road museum, the pustular body odours of young men in loose pajamas holding hands in Sadar evenings, the knife‑sharpness of expectorated betel‑nut and the bitter‑sweet commingling of betel and opium: 'rocket paans' were sniffed out in the hawker‑crowded alleys between Elphin‑stone Street and Victoria Road.
It is a commingling of tiny movements and indefinable colors as if you haven't a body at all, but are a collection of heat and light.
And behind us came an endless train, and great wagons of men who clung to wooden bars and cried out to be released, their voices commingling in an awful chorus.
Nishitsu felt a commingling of poignancy and lust at the sight of that tender flesh, at how she so willingly exposed it to him.
But a strange commingling of guilt and love drove her to do just the opposite of what Thornburg had asked of her.
Too, prominent among those on the rise were two I had known even to the touchings of wounds, even to the comminglings of blood, my friends, my brothers, Hci and Cuwignaka.
Now that I am fond of you, and am at pains to pleasure you, I do most frankly and fully confess and I ask them whether, considering only all that it means to have had, and to have continually, before one's eyes your debonair demeanour, your bewitching beauty and exquisite grace, and therewithal your modest womanliness, not to speak of having known the amorous kisses, the caressing embraces, the voluptuous comminglings, whereof our intercourse with you, ladies most sweet, not seldom is productive, they do verily marvel that I am fond of you, seeing that one who was nurtured, reared, and brought up on a savage and solitary mountain, within the narrow circuit of a cell, without other companion than his father, had no sooner seen you than 'twas you alone that he desired, that he demanded, that he sought with ardour?