embezzlement

noun

em·​bez·​zle·​ment -zəlmənt 

plural -s

: the act of embezzling

specifically : fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been entrusted (as of an employer's money by his clerk or of public funds by the officer in charge) compare larceny

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