embezzlement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English embezzle
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embezzlement
From embezzle + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: embezzlements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.
The case involved large-scale embezzlement.
charged with embezzlement
corporate embezzlement
"Embezzlement, sir," commented Mr Carlyle icily. "But what is embezzlement on the top of wholesale murder!"
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.
gloss: The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: embezzle
corruptocracy
forgery
fraud
kakistocracy
kleptocracy
larceny
quackery
usury
Derived words: nonembezzlement
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِخْتِلَاس
roman: iḵtilās
lang: Bulgarian
word: злоупотреба
roman: zloupotreba
lang: Bulgarian
word: присвояване
roman: prisvojavane
lang: Catalan
word: malversació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 盜用 /盗用
roman: dàoyòng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 侵吞
roman: qīntūn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 侵佔 /侵占
roman: qīnzhàn
lang: Czech
word: zpronevěra
lang: Czech
word: defraudace
lang: Danish
word: underslæb
lang: Dutch
word: verduistering
lang: Dutch
word: zwendel
lang: Esperanto
word: malversacio
lang: Finnish
word: kavallus
lang: French
word: détournement
lang: Georgian
word: მიტაცება
roman: miṭaceba
lang: Georgian
word: გაფლანგვა
roman: gaplangva
lang: German
word: Unterschlagung
lang: Greek
word: υπεξαίρεση
roman: ypexaíresi
lang: Hindi
word: ग़बन
roman: ġaban
lang: Hungarian
word: sikkasztás
lang: Hungarian
word: hűtlen kezelés
lang: Icelandic
word: fjárdráttur
lang: Indonesian
word: penggelapan
lang: Irish
word: cúigleáil
lang: Italian
word: appropriazione indebita
lang: Italian
word: peculato
lang: Japanese
word: 横領
roman: ōryō
lang: Japanese
word: 猫糞
roman: nekobaba
lang: Korean
word: 횡령
roman: hoengnyeong
lang: Latin
word: pecūlātus
lang: Lithuanian
word: grobstymas
lang: Macedonian
word: проневера
roman: pronevera
lang: Norwegian
word: underslag
lang: Persian
word: اختلاس
roman: extelâs
lang: Polish
word: sprzeniewierzenie
lang: Polish
word: malwersacja
lang: Polish
word: defraudacja
lang: Portuguese
word: peculato
lang: Portuguese
word: desfalque
lang: Portuguese
word: estelionato
lang: Portuguese
word: fraude
lang: Russian
word: хище́ние
roman: xiščénije
lang: Russian
word: растра́та
roman: rastráta
lang: Russian
word: присвое́ние
roman: prisvojénije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про̏невера
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про̏невјера
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prȍnevera
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prȍnevjera
lang: Spanish
word: apropiación indebida
lang: Spanish
word: peculado
lang: Spanish
word: desfalco
lang: Spanish
word: malversación
lang: Swedish
word: förskingring
lang: Tagalog
word: panlulustay
lang: Tagalog
word: paglustay
lang: Thai
word: การยักยอก
roman: gaan-yák-yɔ̂ɔk
lang: Turkish
word: aşırtı
lang: Turkish
word: ihtilas
lang: Turkish
word: hortumculuk
lang: Turkish
word: yolsuzluk