embezzlement

English

Etymology

From embezzle +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/, /ˌəmˈbɛzəlmənt/

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Noun

embezzlement (countable and uncountable, plural embezzlements)

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

   Synonym: misappropriation

   He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.

   The case involved large-scale embezzlement.

   charged with embezzlement

   corporate embezzlement

   embezzlement scheme

   1. Such conversion from public property.

      Synonym: peculation

      Hypernyms: corruption, venality

Derived terms

• nonembezzlement

Related terms

• embezzle

Translations

the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner

• Arabic: اِخْتِلَاس (ar) m (iḵtilās)
• Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f (zloupotreba), присвояване n (prisvojavane)
• Catalan: malversació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盜用 / 盗用 (zh) (dàoyòng), 侵吞 (zh) (qīntūn), 侵佔 / 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn)

• Czech: zpronevěra f, defraudace (cs) f
• Danish: underslæb n
• Dutch: verduistering (nl) f, zwendel (nl)
• Esperanto: malversacio
• Finnish: kavallus (fi)
• French: détournement (fr) m
• Georgian: მიტაცება (miṭaceba), გაფლანგვა (gaplangva)
• German: Unterschlagung (de) f
• Greek: υπεξαίρεση (el) f (ypexaíresi)
• Hindi: ग़बन m (ġaban)
• Hungarian: sikkasztás (hu), hűtlen kezelés (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárdráttur (is) m
• Indonesian: penggelapan (id)
• Irish: cúigleáil f
• Italian: appropriazione indebita f, peculato (it) m
• Japanese: 横領 (ja) (おうりょう, ōryō), 猫糞 (ja) (ねこばば, nekobaba)
• Korean: 횡령(橫領) (ko) (hoengnyeong)
• Latin: pecūlātus
• Lithuanian: grobstymas m
• Macedonian: проневера f (pronevera)
• Norwegian: underslag (no) n
• Persian: اختلاس (fa) (extelâs)
• Polish: sprzeniewierzenie (pl) n, malwersacja (pl) f, defraudacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: peculato (pt) m, desfalque (pt) m, estelionato (pt) m, fraude (pt) f
• Russian: хище́ние (ru) n (xiščénije), растра́та (ru) (rastráta), присвое́ние (ru) n (prisvojénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) про̏невера f, (Ijekavian) про̏невјера f

  Roman: (Ekavian) prȍnevera f, (Ijekavian) prȍnevjera (sh) f

• Spanish: apropiación indebida f, peculado (es) m, desfalco (es) m, malversación (es) f
• Swedish: förskingring (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlulustay, paglustay
• Thai: การยักยอก (th) (gaan-yák-yɔ̂ɔk)
• Turkish: aşırtı (tr), ihtilas (tr), hortumculuk (colloquial), yolsuzluk (tr)

See also

• corruptocracy
• forgery
• fraud
• kakistocracy
• kleptocracy
• larceny
• quackery
• usury

Further reading

• embezzlement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia