Embezzlement meaning

The illegal taking of property under one’s care, particularly property to which one has a public trust or fiduciary duty.
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(legal term) The fraudulent taking of another person’s property with which one has been entrusted. As a case in point, if the owner of a car loaned it to a friend, and the friend took off with the car, the friend has embezzled the car. LegalDefinitions.com. Embezzlement. [Online, 2004.] Legal Definitions.com Website. http://www.legal-definitions.com/embezzlement.htm.
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(law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
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Embezzlement Sentence Examples

  • The law student now had a secure job with the firm and any future episodes of embezzlement had been discouraged.

  • The occasion of the letter was a case of embezzlement, the guilty individual being a presbyter at Philippi.

  • He blamed it on his spending habits that included luxury cars and mansions, as well as poor financial advice and embezzlement by his manager.

  • As no regular budget was attempted, as accounts were not kept, and as audit was unknown, the opportunities for fraud and embezzlement were endless.

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