embezzlement

embezzlement

English

Etymology

embezzle +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/, /ˌəmˈbɛzəlmənt/

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Noun

embezzlement (plural embezzlements)

1. (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

Synonyms

• misappropriation

Related terms

• embezzle

Translations

the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner

Arabic: اِخْتِلَاس‎ m (iḵtilās) Bulgarian: злоупотреба (bg) f (zloupotreba) Catalan: malversació f Chinese: Mandarin: 盜用／盗用 (zh) (dàoyòng), 侵吞 (zh) (qīntūn), 侵佔／侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn) Czech: zpronevěra 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 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 Russian: хище́ние (ru) n (xiščénije), растра́та (ru) (rastráta), присвое́ние (ru) n (prisvojénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (Ekavian) про̏невера f, (Ijekavian) про̏невјера f Roman: (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 Turkish: aşırtı (tr), ihtilas (tr), hortumculuk (colloquial), yolsuzluk (tr)

See also

• forgery
• fraud
• larceny
• quackery
• usury