EMBEZZLE
- to appropriate something, such as property entrusted to ones care fraudulently to ones own use.
- to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use [v EMBEZZLED, EMBEZZLES, EMBEZZLING]
- to appropriate money fraudulently for one's own use [v EMBEZZLED, EMBEZZLING, EMBEZZLES]
- Steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works)
- The companys senior accounts manager embezzled thousands of dollars from her employer.