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third-person singular simple present embezzles, present participle embezzling, simple past and past participle embezzled
(law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. quotations examples
You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
1903, H.G. Wells, Twelve Stories and a Dream
You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner