English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
embezzle + -ment
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/, /ˌəmˈbɛzəlmənt/
embezzlement (plural embezzlements)
- (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
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Translations[edit]
the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner
- Arabic: اِخْتِلَاس m (iḵtilās)
- Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f (zloupotreba)
- 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
- 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
- Turkish: aşırtı (tr), ihtilas (tr), hortumculuk (colloquial), yolsuzluk (tr)
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