Associations to the word «Embezzle»

Wiktionary

EMBEZZLE, verb. (legal) (business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

Dictionary definition

EMBEZZLE, 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope