embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate
(verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one’s care) fraudulently to one’s own use; “The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)
(transitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
(transitive) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of (money, rents, income, etc.).
Source: Wiktionary
De*fal"cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defalcated; p. pr. & vb. n. Defalcating.] Etym: [LL. defalcatus, p. p. of defalcare to deduct, orig., to cut off with a sickle; L. de- + falx, a sickle. See Falchion.]
Definition: To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.
De*fal"cate, v. i.
Definition: To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. "Some partner defalcating, or the like." Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 October 2024
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish; “a grievous loss”; “a grievous cry”; “her sigh was heartbreaking”; “the heartrending words of Rabin’s granddaughter”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
