Embezzle

Verb

 * 1)  To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from one's employer.
 * 2) * 1903, H.G. Wells, Twelve Stories and a Dream
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner
 * 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?

Derived terms

 * embezzler
 * embezzlement

Thesaurus
abstract, abuse, and, annex, appropriate, bag, befoul, boost, borrow, convert, cop, crib, debase, defalcate, defile, defraud, desecrate, divert, extort, filch, foul, hook, lift, loot, make off with, maladminister, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, nip, palm, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pinch, poach, pollute, profane, prostitute, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, violate, walk off with

Etymology
1469, from embesiler: (1305), from  besillier:, of unknown origin.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French: divertir, détourner
 * German: unterschlagen
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian: sikkaszt
 * Polish: sprzeniewierzyć
 * Spanish: