English-Thai Dictionary

embezzle

VT ยักยอก เงิน  ฉ้อฉล ,ฉ้อโกง  defraud misappropriate peculate yak-yok-ngen

 

embezzlement

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

 

embezzler

N ผู้ทุจริต  ผู้ ยักยอก  คน ฉ้อโกง  phu-tu-ja-rid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBEZZLE

v.t.[Heb. signifies to plunder. ] 1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use what is entrusted to one's care and management. It differs from stealing and robbery in this, that the latter imply a wrongful taking of another's goods, but embezzlement denotes the wrongful appropriation and use of what came into possession by right. It is not uncommon for men entrusted with public money to embezzle it.
2. To waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
When thou hast embezzled all thy store.

 

EMBEZZLED

pp. Appropriated wrongfully to one's own use.

 

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.

 

EMBEZZLER

n.One who embezzles.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMBEZZLE

Em *bez "zle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embezzled; p. pr. & vb. n.Embezzling. ] Etym: [Norm. F. embeseiller to destroy; cf. OF. besillier to ill treat, ravage, destroy. Cf. Bezzle. ]

 

1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

 

2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs. ] To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.

 

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.

 

EMBEZZLER

EMBEZZLER Em *bez "zler, n.

 

Defn: One who embezzles.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

embezzle

em bez zle |emˈbezəl əmˈbɛzəl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works ): she had embezzled $5,600,000 in company funds. DERIVATIVES em bez zler |emˈbezlər |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘steal ’): from Anglo-Norman French embesiler, from besiler in the same sense (compare with Old French besillier ‘maltreat, ravage ’), of unknown ultimate origin. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.

 

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

embezzle

em |bez ¦zle |ɪmˈbɛz (ə )l, ɛm- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works ): she had embezzled £5,600,000 in company funds. DERIVATIVES embezzler noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘steal ’): from Anglo-Norman French embesiler, from besiler in the same sense (compare with Old French besillier ‘maltreat, ravage ’), of unknown ultimate origin. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.

 

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

embezzle

embezzle verb he's accused of embezzling donated funds: misappropriate, steal, thieve, pilfer, purloin, appropriate, defraud someone of, siphon off, pocket, help oneself to; abstract; informal rob, rip off, skim, line one's pockets with, pinch.

 

embezzlement

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

 

Oxford Thesaurus

embezzle

embezzle verb he was charged with embezzling more than £5,000 from a country club: misappropriate, steal, rob, thieve, pilfer, appropriate, abstract, defraud someone of, siphon off, pocket, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, line one's pockets /purse with; put one's hand in the till, dip into the public purse, commit white-collar crime, commit fraud; informal rip off, filch, swipe, lift, skim, snaffle; Brit. informal pinch, nick, half-inch, whip, nobble; formal peculate, defalcate, purloin.

 

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

embezzle

em bez zle /ɪmbéz (ə )l /動詞 他動詞 自動詞 【組織 会社から 】(〈金 〉を )横領する, 着服する «from » .em b é z zler 名詞

 

embezzlement

em b é z zle ment 名詞 U 横領, 着服, 使い込み .