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Definitions
appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
Word origin
From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.
Used in a sentence
“You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.”
“You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?”
“A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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