embezzlement

English

Etymology

embezzle +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

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

embezzlement (plural embezzlements)

(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
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

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)

embezzlement

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