Usually means: Misappropriating funds for personal use.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word embezzling:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. embezzling: Merriam-Webster
  2. embezzling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embezzling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Embezzling, embezzling: Wordnik
  5. embezzling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embezzling: Wiktionary
  7. embezzling: Dictionary.com
  8. embezzling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Embezzling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Embezzling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Embezzling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. embezzling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. embezzling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. embezzling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embezzling: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  embezzlement

Similar:
peculate, misappropriate, imbezlement, defalcation, purloining, plunderage, filchery, skim, interversion, fraud, more...

Opposite:
reimbursing, compensating, refunding

Types:
skimming, lapping, kiting, stuffing, false billing, payroll fraud, ponzi scheme, more...

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Similar:
peculate, misappropriate, imbezlement, defalcation, purloining, plunderage, filchery, skim, interversion, fraud, more...

Opposite:
reimbursing, compensating, refunding

Types:
skimming, lapping, kiting, stuffing, false billing, payroll fraud, ponzi scheme, more...



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