embezzle

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use (Freq. 2)
- The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family
• Syn:
defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate
• Derivationally related forms:
malversation (for: malversate), misappropriation (for: misappropriate), peculation (for: peculate), peculator (for: peculate), defalcation (for: defalcate), defalcator (for: defalcate), embezzlement, embezzler
• Hypernyms:
steal
• Hyponyms:
fiddle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
- They embezzle the money

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate