Look up: embezzlement

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   Embezzlement
   In law, embezzlement is the theft by a clerk or servant of money or goods received by him on behalf of his employer. It differs from larceny in that the original receiving of the property was lawful.
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   embezzlement
   [n] - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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   embezzlement
   In law, theft by an employee of property entrusted to him or her by an employer. In British law it is no longer a distinct offence from theft. ...
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   embezzlement
   illegal appropriation of money or of some other object of which one is in de facto possession; the difference between embezzlement and theft is that the thief was not in de facto possess ion before the theft and took away the object; misappropriation of money in one`s keeping Category: Law • type of computer crime including modifications to records,falsification of program routines,e.g...
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   Embezzlement
   Em·bez'zle·ment noun The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. » Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or steal ...
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   embezzlement
   peculation noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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   Embezzlement
   `Embezzlement` is the fraudulent appropriation by a person to his or her own use of property or money entrusted to that person's care but owned by someone else. For instance, a clerk or cashier can embezzle money from his or her employer, a civil servant can embezzle funds from the treasury, or a pastor can embezzle funds from a church. Embezzlement differs from larceny in two ways. First, in embezzlement, an actual conversion must occur; second...
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   Embezzlement
   • (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer`s; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.
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   embezzlement
   crime generally defined as the fraudulent misappropriation of goods of another by a servant, an agent, or another person to whom possession of the ... [11 related articles]
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    embezzlement
    To take assets in violation of trust.
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    embezzlement
    embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a “felonious taking,” i.e., when the act was...
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