Associations to the word «Peculation»

Wiktionary

PECULATION, noun. (legal) (chiefly historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

Dictionary definition

PECULATION, noun. The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King