Crossword clues for embezzle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.]
To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.
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To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming.
--Sharp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "make away with money or property of another, steal," from Anglo-French enbesiler "to steal, cause to disappear" (c.1300), from Old French em- (see en- (1)) + besillier "torment, destroy, gouge," which is of unknown origin. Sense of "dispose of fraudulently to one's own use," is first recorded 1580s. Related: Embezzled; embezzling.
Wiktionary
vb. (context legal business English) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
WordNet
v. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate]
Usage examples of "embezzle".
I also pulled up information on some of the Chasidic Jews from Quinton, mostly having to do with them embezzling funds for the religious-school systems.
Darnell was to fake a minor gambling and embezzling record that would discredit Sev with his employers.
It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.
On Monday night, the eleventh day of May, in the thirty-third year of the State of West Virginia, the judge of the criminal court of Gullmore County, and the judge of the circuit court of Gullmore county were to meet together for the purpose of deciding two matters--one relating to the trial of Moseby Allen, the retiring sheriff, for embezzling funds of the county, amounting to thirty thousand dollars, and the other, an action pending in the circuit court, wherein the State of West Virginia, at the relation of Jacob Wade, was seeking to recover this sum from the bondsmen of Allen.
Patrick Green, indeed, brought face to face with a stark choice between a sentence for conversion, civil theft and breach of constructive trust, followed by the automatic revocation of his licence to practise law - between that and the repaying of some at least of what he'd embezzled from Jules Harlow and Mrs Nutbridge, had discovered all of a sudden that there were dollars to be earned in the outside world, even if it meant stocking supermarket shelves.
He had been cooking the books for years and he was going to embezzle the money from his company.
No explanation why you embezzled money from your own family's company to pay off drug barons?
He's got sense enough to know that if he and his accomplice pay back all the money Harry embezzled, they won't have any operating capital.
He embezzled a great deal of my money, destroyed my career, made me an object of pity and ridicule in the tabloid press.
That I embezzled from Bittle to keep Pretenses afloat, and I'm not having it.
Pepper said, “to be a shortage of approximately $76,000, evidently embezzled over a period of some years.
The shortage would have appeared, and everybody in the world would have said he'd embezzled county funds to play the market.
Ellen MacGowan had lived six years with her father's body buried beneath the cellar floor and had embezzled thousands of dollars to save his name and her pride.
Big Oysters Pok said, thinking, I know how much was embezzled but why should I tell him?
You didn't know or care that his money was embezzled from an income-tax evader.