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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪmˈbɛz.əl/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ɪmˈbɛz.əl/, /ɛmˈbɛz.əl/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /əmˈbɛz.əl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɪmˈbez.əl/
• 韻: -ɛzəl

動詞

embezzle (third-person singular simple present embezzles, present participle embezzling, simple past and past participle embezzled)

1. (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
   • 1903, H. G. Wells, “Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation”, in Twelve Stories and a Dream:

     You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.

   • 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

   • 1959 October, Michael Robbins, “The Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:

     A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.

同意語

• defalcate
• have one's hand in the till
• misappropriate
• peculate
• skim

派生語

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