Look up: embezzlement

1. 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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2. embezzlement
   [n] - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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3. 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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4. 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 &b...
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5. 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. &#x...
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6. embezzlement
   peculation noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
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7. 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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8. 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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9. Embezzlement
   Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting{Clarify|date=March 2012} assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted. Embezzlement is a kind of financial fraud. For instance, a lawyer could embezzle funds from clients` trust accounts, a financial advi...
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10. embezzlement
    To take assets in violation of trust.
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11. 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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12. Embezzlement
    n. the crime of stealing the funds or property of an employer, company or government or misappropriating money or assets held in trust
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13. embezzlement
    In law, theft by an employee of property entrusted to him or her by an employer
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14. Embezzlement
    Dishonestly appropriating another's assets for one's own use
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