embezzlement
em be zuhl muhnt
- n the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
- In recent months he has been bombarded with accusations, ranging from embezzlement to deviation from the Buddha's teaching.
- Yet it seems unlikely that a traffic officer who searches a black motorist on the shoulder of a highway believes he is stopping a robbery, rape or embezzlement.
- Battling extradition over charges of embezzlement, a financier says he's the fall guy for the 1997 financial crash.