embezzle

Embezzle is defined as to steal money or assets that do not belong to you.

(verb)

An example of embezzle is if you reroute company and client money into your own bank account.

See embezzle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to steal (money, etc. entrusted to one's care); take by fraud for one's own use

Origin: ME embesilen < Anglo-Fr enbesiler < OFr embesillier < en- (see en-) + besillier, to destroy

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See embezzle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb em·bez·zled, em·bez·zling, em·bez·zles

To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.

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Origin: Middle English embesilen

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman enbesiler

Origin: : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-¹

Origin: + Old French besillier, to ravage

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