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Embezzle

  1. verb

    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

    Similar: defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate

Word family

embezzlement · embezzled · embezzling

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