English-Thai Dictionary

embezzlement

N การยักยอก เงิน  การ ฉ้อ โกงเงิน  misappropriation peculation kan-yak-yok-ngen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBEZZLEMENT

n.The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use, the money or goods entrusted to one's care and management. An accurate account of the embezzlements of public money would form a curious history. 1. The thing appropriated.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMBEZZLEMENT

EMBEZZLEMENT Em *bez "zle *ment, n.

 

Defn: 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.

 

Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

embezzlement

em bez zle ment |emˈbezəlmənt | ▶noun theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer: charges of fraud and embezzlement.

 

Oxford Dictionary

embezzlement

em |bezzle |ment |ɛmˈbɛzlm (ə )nt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer: charges of fraud and embezzlement.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

embezzlement

embezzlement noun four corporate managers were indicted for embezzlement: misappropriation, theft, stealing, robbery, thieving, pilfering, purloining, pilferage, appropriation, swindling; fraud, larceny.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

embezzlement

embezzlement noun the embezzlement of public funds: misappropriation, theft, stealing, robbing, robbery, thieving, pilfering, pilferage, appropriation, abstraction, swindling; white-collar crime, fraud, larceny, misuse of funds; informal ripping off, filching, swiping, lifting, skimming, snaffling, monkey business; Brit. informal pinching, nicking, half-inching, whipping, nobbling; formal peculation, defalcation, purloining.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

embezzlement

em b é z zle ment 名詞 U 横領, 着服, 使い込み .