Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of embezzling; specifically, the act by which a clerk, servant, or other person occupying a position of trust fraudulently appropriates to his own use the money or goods intrusted to his care; a criminal conversion; the appropriation to one's self by a breach of trust of the property or money of another; “a sort of statutory larceny, committed by servants and other like persons where there is a trust reposed, and therefore no trespass, so that the act would not be larceny at the common law” (Bishop).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted
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- noun law, business The
fraudulent conversion ofproperty from a property owner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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Examples
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We have survived and overcome job loss, embezzlement from a trusted business partner, and an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Lisa Madigan: Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure Lisa Madigan 2010
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John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that embezzlement is “the most interesting of crimes” for an economist.
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We have survived and overcome job loss, embezzlement from a trusted business partner, and an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Lisa Madigan: Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure Lisa Madigan 2010
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And I forgot to throw in embezzlement and racketeering in there.
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On purely my own ideals – embezzlement is stealing from someone else.
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SGA in embezzlement scandal p2p news/p2pnet: - One and a quarter million dollars in songwriter royalties have been allegedly embezzled from the Songwriters Guild of America by its royalty manager, Marsha Aiken, and family members.
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The Republican skel embezzlement is a “tax cut for the elite” coming out of your account, Republican skel embezzlement is “giving American dollars to oil corporations in the energy billâ€, Republican skel embezzlement is “allowing gas price gouge by oil corporationsâ€, Republican skel embezzlement is “giving the corporate banks a get richer bankruptcy billâ€.
Think Progress » New Laws Make Life Harder For Storm Victims 2005
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Sixty five-year-old Richard Bridges was charged with felony theft and forgery in connection with a long-term embezzlement scheme against a Simpson county church.
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Even by the terrible standards of a scam named after section 419 of the Nigerian penal code, the case sets new benchmarks in size, long-term embezzlement, and the involvement of the victim against her better judgement.
Techworld.com News 2008
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p2pnet news » Blog Archive » SGA in embezzlement scandal
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