English
Etymology
From embezzle + -ment.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/, /ˌəmˈbɛzəlmənt/
Noun
embezzlement (countable and uncountable, plural embezzlements)
- (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
- Synonym: misappropriation
He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.
The case involved large-scale embezzlement.
charged with embezzlement
corporate embezzlement
embezzlement scheme
- Such conversion from public property.
- Synonym: peculation
- Hypernyms: corruption, venality
Derived terms
Translations
the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner
- Arabic: اِخْتِلَاس (ar) m (iḵtilās)
- Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f (zloupotreba), присвояване n (prisvojavane)
- Catalan: malversació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 盜用 / 盗用 (zh) (dàoyòng), 侵吞 (zh) (qīntūn), 侵佔 / 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn)
- Czech: zpronevěra (cs) f, defraudace (cs) f
- Danish: underslæb n
- Dutch: verduistering (nl) f, zwendel (nl)
- Esperanto: malversacio
- Finnish: kavallus (fi)
- French: détournement (fr) m
- Georgian: მიტაცება (miṭaceba), გაფლანგვა (gaplangva)
- German: Unterschlagung (de) f
- Greek: υπεξαίρεση (el) f (ypexaíresi)
- Hindi: ग़बन m (ġaban)
- Hungarian: sikkasztás (hu), hűtlen kezelés (hu)
- Icelandic: fjárdráttur (is) m
- Indonesian: penggelapan (id)
- Irish: cúigleáil f
- Italian: appropriazione indebita f, peculato (it) m
- Japanese: 横領 (ja) (おうりょう, ōryō), 猫糞 (ja) (ねこばば, nekobaba)
- Korean: 횡령(橫領) (ko) (hoengnyeong)
- Latin: pecūlātus
- Lithuanian: grobstymas m
- Macedonian: проневера f (pronevera)
- Norwegian: underslag (no) n
- Persian: اختلاس (fa) (extelâs)
- Polish: sprzeniewierzenie (pl) n, malwersacja (pl) f, defraudacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: peculato (pt) m, desfalque (pt) m, estelionato (pt) m, fraude (pt) f
- Russian: хище́ние (ru) n (xiščénije), растра́та (ru) (rastráta), присвое́ние (ru) n (prisvojénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Ekavian) про̏невера f, (Ijekavian) про̏невјера f
- Latin: (Ekavian) prȍnevera f, (Ijekavian) prȍnevjera (sh) f
- Spanish: apropiación indebida f, peculado (es) m, desfalco (es) m, malversación (es) f
- Swedish: förskingring (sv) c
- Tagalog: panlulustay, paglustay
- Thai: การยักยอก (th) (gaan-yák-yɔ̂ɔk)
- Turkish: aşırtı (tr), ihtilas (tr), hortumculuk (colloquial), yolsuzluk (tr)
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