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embezzlement

noun
/ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/US

Etymology

From embezzle + -ment.

  1. derived from besillier — “to torment, destroy, gouge”
  2. derived from embesiler
  3. inherited from embesilen
  4. suffixed as embezzlement — “embezzle + ment”

Definitions

  1. The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

    • He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.
    • The case involved large-scale embezzlement.
    • charged with embezzlement

The neighborhood

Derived

nonembezzlement

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for embezzlement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA