embezzlement

English

Etymology

embezzle +‎ -ment

Noun

embezzlement (plural embezzlements)

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

Synonyms

• misappropriation

Related terms

• embezzle

See also

• forgery
• fraud
• larceny
• quackery
• usury

Translations

The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner

• Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f (zloupotreba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盗用 (zh) (dàoyòng)

• Czech: zpronevěra f, defraudace (cs) f
• Dutch: verduistering (nl) f
• Finnish: kavallus (fi)
• French: détournement (fr) m
• Georgian: მიტაცება (miṭaceba)
• German: Unterschlagung (de) f
• Greek: κατάχρηση (el) f (katáchrisi)
• Hungarian: sikkasztás (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárdráttur (is) m
• Irish: cúigleáil f
• Italian: appropriazione indebita f, peculato (it) m

• Japanese: 横領 (おうりょう, ōryō), 猫ばば (nekobaba)
• Korean: 횡령 (ko) (hoengnyeong)
• Latin: peculatus
• Lithuanian: grobstymas m
• Norwegian: underslag (no) n
• Portuguese: peculato (pt) m
• Russian: хище́ние (ru) n (xiščénije), растра́та (ru) (rastráta)
• 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
• Swedish: förskingring (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlulustay, paglustay
• Turkish: aşırtı (tr), ihtilas (tr), hortumculuk (colloquial), yolsuzluk (tr)