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- verb Present participle of
embezzle .
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Examples
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The payroll manager for a large Manhattan real estate firm, he’s been embezzling from the place in order to support his vacuous wife (Marisa Tomei) in the style to which she’s grown accustomed and the IRS is closing in.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007
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Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?
Andy Ostroy: What Our Young Folks Need to Know About Ron Paul Andy Ostroy 2011
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Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?
Andy Ostroy: What Our Young Folks Need to Know About Ron Paul Andy Ostroy 2011
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Then he began borrowing, that is to say embezzling, from various trusts and funds of which he was a trustee — the Harvard Club of New York, the New York Yacht Club, the St. Paul's School endowment and the New York Stock Exchange pension fund.
A WASP Madoff 2009
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Michael guessed that it meant the act of embezzling, which is pretty close, wouldn't you say?
Define That Term #5 2006
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I believe it is called embezzling, and is a criminal offense.
The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences Frank V. Webster
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Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Andy Ostroy 2011
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It's called embezzling if you take it as your own.
EzineArticles 2010
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Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian? "he wrote.
Liberal Hero Ron Paul: Blacks Commit Crimes, Zionists Silence The Opposition 2009
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This Gov. assaults Obama, knowing full well he has been embezzling state money for personal pleasure.
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