embezzler

English

Etymology

From embezzle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛmˈbɛz(ə)lɚ/, /ɪm-/

Noun

embezzler (plural embezzlers)

1. One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.
   • 1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary

     It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.

   • 2003, Will and Grace (TV, episode 5.23)

     At the time, I was deeply involved with the handsome embezzler who led a major telecom company into bankruptcy.

   • 2015 December 3, Tracy Alloway, “There's Been a Bezzle-Fueled Boom in Bonds”, in Markets‎^[1], Bloomberg News, retrieved 2021-08-16:

     That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.

   • 2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.

Synonyms

• peculator

Translations

one who steals money they have been trusted with

• Afrikaans: bedrieër
• Bengali: চাঁদাবাজ (cãdabaj)
• Danish: kassebedrager c, person, der begår underslæb
• Irish: cúigleálaí m
• Latin: pecūlātor m, āversor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underslager m

  Nynorsk: underslagar m

• Russian: казнокра́д (ru) m (kaznokrád), растра́тчик (ru) m (rastrátčik)
• Spanish: malversador (es) m
• Swahili: tapeli (sw)
• Swedish: förskingrare (sv) c
• Tagalog: manlulustay