
1) Amount 2) Amount of money 3) Sum of money 4) The sum misappropriated
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1) Contraction 2) Embezzlement 3) Misappropriation 4) On payment 5) Peculation 6) Plunderage
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A defalcation is an amount of funds misappropriated by a person trusted with its charge; also, the act of misappropriation, or an instance thereof. The term is more specifically used by the United States Bankruptcy Code to describe a category of bad acts that taint a particular debt such that it cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. In Accounting te...
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• (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. • (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement. • (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
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To misuse or embezzle funds.
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v. Latin meaning "deduction." Defalcations are funds which are withheld or misappropriated by public officials for another.
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De`fal·ca'tion noun [ Late Latin defalcatio : confer French défalcation .] 1. A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. Abbott. 2. That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
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The reduction of the claim of one of the contracting parties against the other, by deducting from it a smaller claim due from the former to the latter.
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The failure to turn over or account for funds entrusted to one's care. Defalcation may be, but is not necessarily, criminal or fraudulent.
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Defalcation is the misappropriation of money pr funds held by an official, trustee or other fiduciary.
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[
n] - the sum of money that is misappropriated
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noun the sum of money that is misappropriated
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- To misuse or embezzle funds.
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misappropriation of money or funds held by an official, trustee, or other fiduciary. · the sum misappropriated.
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the sum of money that is misappropriated
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