Noun: embezzlement em'be-zul-munt
- The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
"He did six years for embezzlement";
- peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation
Derived forms: embezzlements
Type of: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving
Encyclopedia: Embezzlement