Tom pleaded guilty to embezzlement.
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Embezzlement
//ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt//
Synonyms for "embezzlement" (64 found)
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Related words (32)
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1 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِخْتِلَاس noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Bulgarian
2 entries- злоупотреба noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- присвояване noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Catalan
1 entries- malversació noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 侵佔 /侵占 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- 侵吞 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- 盜用 /盗用 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Czech
2 entries- defraudace noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- zpronevěra noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Danish
1 entries- underslæb noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Dutch
2 entries- verduistering noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- zwendel noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Esperanto
1 entries- malversacio noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Finnish
1 entries- kavallus noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
French
1 entries- détournement noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Georgian
2 entries- გაფლანგვა noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- მიტაცება noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
German
1 entries- Unterschlagung noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Greek
1 entries- υπεξαίρεση noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Hindi
1 entries- ग़बन noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Hungarian
2 entries- hűtlen kezelés noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- sikkasztás noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Icelandic
1 entries- fjárdráttur noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Indonesian
1 entries- penggelapan noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Irish
1 entries- cúigleáil noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Italian
2 entries- appropriazione indebita noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- peculato noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Japanese
2 entries- 横領 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- 猫糞 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Korean
1 entries- 횡령 noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Latin
1 entries- pecūlātus noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Lithuanian
1 entries- grobstymas noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Macedonian
1 entries- проневера noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Norwegian
1 entries- underslag noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Persian
1 entries- اختلاس noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Polish
3 entries- defraudacja noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- malwersacja noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- sprzeniewierzenie noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Portuguese
4 entries- desfalque noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- estelionato noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- fraude noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- peculato noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Russian
3 entries- присвое́ние noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- растра́та noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- хище́ние noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prȍnevera noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- prȍnevjera noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- про̏невера noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- про̏невјера noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Spanish
4 entries- apropiación indebida noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- desfalco noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- malversación noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- peculado noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Swedish
1 entries- förskingring noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Tagalog
2 entries- paglustay noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- panlulustay noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Thai
1 entries- การยักยอก noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Turkish
4 entries- aşırtı noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- hortumculuk noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- ihtilas noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
- yolsuzluk noun (the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Sami got busted for embezzlement.
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The bookkeeper was arrested last night for embezzlement.
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The bookkeeper was arrested for embezzlement.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.