embezzlementn.
/ɛmˈbɛz(ə)lmənt/ The action of embezzling: †(a) in senses of embezzle v. 1 – 3 (obsolete); (b) (the modern sense) fraudulent appropriation of entrusted property.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun]
theft688
stalec950
stealc1200
stoutha1300
stealing13..
stealtha1325
lifting1362
briberya1387
stoutheriec1440
larcenya1475
larcerya1500
conveyancea1529
thieving1530
bribing1533
larcinc1535
embezzling1540
embezzlement1548
thiefdom?1549
theftdom1566
bribering1567
milling1567
thievery1568
larcinry1634
panyarring1703
abduction1766
smugging1825
pickup1846
lurking1851
make1860
tea-leafing1899
snitching1933
lapping1950
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > embezzlement or misappropriation > [noun]
misnimming?c1225
embezzlement1548
malversationc1550
falsity1581
misapplication1607
interverting1614
peculate1617
peculation1658
abstracting1669
plunderage1700
interversiona1754
conveyancing1754
misappropriation1794
abstraction1823
defalcation1832
malappropriation1848
teeming and lading1859
boodlery1886
bobol1907
chop-chop1966
liberation1966
society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > fall or reduction in value
delayinga1500
embezzlement1548
embasing1551
fall1551
debasement1602
disvaluation1617
adulterateness1655
embasement1677
falling1699
depreciating1767
depreciation1767
debasing1891
devaluation1914
devalorization1928
slippage1972
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Aivv What is sacriledge..but an embecilment and stelthe of an holy thing out of an holy place.
1579 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 234 (note) To be restored, withoute anye kinde of embaselmente.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 11 Those weak supposes of..portions, and joyntures likely to incurr imbezlement heerby.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. vi. 119 The lightness which is remarked in the coins of Edward VI. was owing to the embezzlements of this person.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings xv. 242 Fraud, peculation, and embezzlement.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 152 That punishment which is attached to embezzlement.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Dec. 6/1 Embezzlement is the appropriation by a clerk or servant of money coming into his hands on his master's account.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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