With his mother out of the way, Duke was able to proceed with his plan to embezzle the money from the company.
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Embezzle
//ɪmˈbɛz.əl//
Synonyms for "embezzle" (74 found)
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Related words (37)
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1 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 33 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- përvetësoj verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Arabic
2 entries- اِخْتَلَسَ verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- غَلَّ verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mənimsəmək verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Bulgarian
1 entries- злоупотребявам verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Catalan
1 entries- malversar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 挪用 verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- 私吞 verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Czech
1 entries- zpronevěřit verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Danish
1 entries- begå underslæb verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Dutch
1 entries- verduisteren verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Esperanto
1 entries- malversacii verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Finnish
1 entries- kavaltaa verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
French
2 entries- divertir verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- détourner verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
German
2 entries- unterschlagen verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- veruntreuen verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Greek
1 entries- υπεξαιρώ verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Hebrew
1 entries- מעל verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Hungarian
3 entries- elsikkaszt verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- hűtlenül kezel verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- sikkaszt verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Irish
1 entries- cúigleáil verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Italian
2 entries- commettere peculato verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- malversare verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Korean
1 entries- 횡령하다 verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Latin
1 entries- pecūlor verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Norman
1 entries- cabochi des sous verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Norwegian
1 entries- underslå verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- خرسزلامق verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Polish
1 entries- sprzeniewierzyć verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Portuguese
1 entries- desviar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Russian
4 entries- присва́ивать verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- присво́ить verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- расхи́тить verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- расхища́ть verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- otuđiti verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- отуђити verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Sicilian
2 entries- ntascari verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- ntascàrisi verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Spanish
4 entries- defalcar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- desfalcar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- festinar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
- malversar verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Swedish
1 entries- förskingra verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Thai
1 entries- ยักยอก verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Turkish
1 entries- zimmetine geçirmek verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Welsh
1 entries- embeslo verb (to steal money that one has been trusted with)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Embezzle money? I wouldn't put it past her.
Source: tatoeba (1217906)
State media Sunday quoted an official in charge of party discipline as saying cases involving high-ranking officials who take big bribes and embezzle large sums of money are increasing.
Source: tatoeba (12059780)
How much money did Tom embezzle?
Source: tatoeba (12115311)
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