Associations to the word «Defalcation»
Noun
Adverb
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Wiktionary
DEFALCATION, noun. (legal) The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant.
DEFALCATION, noun. Embezzlement
Dictionary definition
DEFALCATION, noun. The sum of money that is misappropriated.
DEFALCATION, noun. The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.