embezzlement

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English

Etymology

embezzle +‎ -ment

Noun

embezzlement (plural embezzlements)

1. (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

Related terms

• embezzle

See also

• forgery
• fraud
• larceny
• quackery
• usury

Translations

The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner

Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 盗用 (cmn) (dàoyòng) Dutch: verduistering (nl) f. Finnish: kavallus (fi) French: détournement (fr) m. German: Unterschlagung (de) f. Greek: κατάχρηση (el) f. Hungarian: sikkasztás (hu) Icelandic: fjárdráttur (is) m. Italian: appropriazione indebita (it) f., peculato (it) m.

Japanese: 横領 (ja), おうりょう (ja) (ōryō), 猫ばば (ja) (nekobaba) Korean: 횡령 (ko) (hoengnyeong) Latin: peculatus (la) Norwegian: underslag (no) n. Portuguese: peculato (pt) m. Russian: хищение (ru) (xiščenije) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (Ekavian) про̏невера (sh) f., (Ijekavian) про̏невјера (sh) f. Roman: (Ekavian) prȍnevera (sh) f., (Ijekavian) prȍnevjera (sh) f. Spanish: apropiación indebida (es) f., peculado (es) m.