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embezzle

verb as in steal money, often from employer

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Example Sentences

In fact, according to the 2011 Marquet Report on Embezzlement, women are more likely to embezzle than men.

The village is poor, but the local party secretary managed to embezzle at least $700,000-$800,000.

To appropriate another man's design was no more nor less than to embezzle his money or steal his goods.

"Embezzle for him $70,000 worth of securities," thought the examiner.

If servants get not their meat honestly and decently, they will neglect their master's business, or embezzle his goods.

When I urged reform, the officials and gentry seized the opportunity to embezzle.

I assigned him a certain operation, and, having brought it to success, he endeavoured to embezzle—did embezzle—the proceeds.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embezzle, such as: appropriate, filch, loot, misappropriate, misuse, and pilfer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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