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Defalcation

noun
1.
The sum of money that is misappropriated.
2.
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.  Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation.





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... Saharas of fact, and not enough to picturesque detail; this throws about them a certain air of the monotonous; in fact the fights are all alike: a couple of people come together with great random —random is a good word, and so is exegesis, for that matter, and so is holocaust, and defalcation, and usufruct and a hundred others, but land! a body ought to discriminate—they come together with great random, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield and the other one goes down, horse and man, over his horse-tail and brake his neck, and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Defalcation" :   sum, sum of money, defalcate, stealing, amount, plunderage, peculation, theft, embezzlement, thieving, larceny, thievery, amount of money, raid


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