EMBEZZLE


Meaning of EMBEZZLE in English

em ‧ bez ‧ zle /ɪmˈbez ə l/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive and transitive]

[ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Anglo-French ; Origin: embeseiller , from Old French besillier 'to destroy' ]

to steal money from the place where you work:

Two managers were charged with embezzling $400,000.

—embezzlement noun [uncountable]

—embezzler noun [countable]

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THESAURUS

▪ steal to illegally take something that belongs to someone else:

The thieves stole over £10,000 worth of computer equipment.

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Thousands of cars get stolen every year.

▪ take to steal something – used when it is clear from the situation that you mean that someone takes something dishonestly:

The boys broke into her house and took all her money.

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They didn’t take much – just a few items of jewellery.

▪ burgle British English , burglarize American English [usually passive] to go into someone’s home and steal things, especially when the owners are not there:

Their house was burgled while they were away.

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If you leave windows open, you are asking to be burgled.

▪ rob to steal money or other things from a bank, shop, or person:

The gang were convicted of robbing a bank in Essex.

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An elderly woman was robbed at gunpoint in her own home.

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He’s serving a sentence for robbing a grocery store.

▪ mug to attack someone in the street and steal something from them:

People in this area are frightened of being mugged when they go out.

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Someone tried to mug me outside the station.

▪ nick/pinch British English informal to steal something:

Someone’s nicked my wallet!

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When I came back, my car had been pinched.

▪ embezzle to steal money from the organization you work for, especially money that you are responsible for:

Government officials embezzled more than $2.5 million from the department.

▪ shoplifting stealing things from a shop by taking them when you think no one is looking:

Shoplifting costs stores millions of pounds every year.

▪ phishing the activity of dishonestly persuading people to give you their credit card details over the Internet, so that you can steal money from their bank account:

Phishing is becoming very popular with computer criminals.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.