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Example sentences from the Web for embezzlementHe remains serving a three-year sentence for embezzlement that he was convicted on in May. Mubarak’s Acquittal Signals Complete Triumph of Military Over Arab Spring|Jamie Dettmer|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Do prior convictions for white-collar crimes like embezzlement constitute significant criminal history? The Prophet of the Bogus Drug War|Jim Neal|August 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST Dutschke pleaded guilty to embezzlement, according to the newspaper. Ricin Suspect J. Everett Dutschke Arrested|Winston Ross|April 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST Before Crundwell, the largest municipal fraud was also an embezzlement case committed by a woman named Harriette Walters. Most Notorious ‘Pink-Collar’ Criminal to Be Sentenced for $53 Million Theft|Kelly Pope|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In fact, according to the 2011 Marquet Report on Embezzlement, women are more likely to embezzle than men. Most Notorious ‘Pink-Collar’ Criminal to Be Sentenced for $53 Million Theft|Kelly Pope|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST Petty thievery flourished, and embezzlement, larceny, forgery and a hundred other crimes. Watchbird|Robert Sheckley Men whose necessities have led them to embezzlement and larceny turn up so regularly that they hardly attract attention. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment|Clarence Darrow Embezzlement is fraudulently putting to one's own use what is intrusted to him by another. The Government Class Book|Andrew W. Young Defalcation—The appropriating to one's own use, of money intrusted to him by another; embezzlement. Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 4|Various That laws shall be passed making it felony, without benefit of clergy, to commit such fraud or embezzlement. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution|Various
Words related to embezzlementmisuse, larceny, fraud, misappropriation, theft, abstraction, misapplication, thieving, appropriation, pilferage, peculation, defalcation, skimming, filching, pilfering, purloining SEE SYNONYMS FOR embezzlement ON THESAURUS.COM
The stealing of money entrusted to one's care: “The treasurer of the company embezzled a million dollars.” Words nearby embezzlementEmber days, ember goose, emberizine, Ember week, embezzle, embezzlement, embiid, embiotocid, embitter, Embla, emblaze The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |