Associations to the word «Embezzle»

Wiktionary

EMBEZZLE, verb. (legal) (business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

Dictionary definition

EMBEZZLE, verb. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family".

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne