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Definitions
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Word origin
From Latin pecūlātiō (“embezzlement”) from pecūlor (“to defraud the public”), related to pecūlium (“property in cattle, private property”), from pecū (“cattle, money”).
Used in a sentence
“[The Chief Magistrate] might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression.”
“Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.”
“She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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