Usually means: Misappropriates funds for personal use.
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  1. embezzles: Merriam-Webster
  2. embezzles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embezzles: Vocabulary.com
  4. embezzles: Wordnik
  5. embezzles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embezzles: Wiktionary
  7. embezzles: Dictionary.com
  8. embezzles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. embezzles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. embezzles: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. embezzles: Legal dictionary
  3. embezzles: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embezzle)

▸ verb:  (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
▸ Also see embezzle


Opposite:
returns, reimburses, refunds, compensates



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Opposite:
returns, reimburses, refunds, compensates




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