to steal money that you are responsible for or that belongs to your employer:
[VN] He was found guilty of embezzling $150000 of public funds. [also V]
embezzlement noun [U]:
She was found guilty of embezzlement.
embezzler noun
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for embezzle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is embezzle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, embezzle is tagged as verb.
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