embezzlement

1. 1.

   the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

   Synonymspeculationdefalcationmisapplicationmisappropriation

   Broaderlarceny

   Narrowerraidplunderage

Other forms of embezzlement

plural

embezzlements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about embezzlement

What does embezzlement mean?

embezzlement means "the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else".

How many syllables are in embezzlement?

embezzlement has 4 syllables: em-bezz-le-ment. The stress falls on "bezz". In IPA it is /ɛmˈbɛzəlmənt/.

What is another word for embezzlement?

Close synonyms include peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is embezzlement a common word?

embezzlement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.