peculate

• Veraltetes Verb mit der Bedeutung, Geld oder Eigentum zu veruntreuen oder zu stehlen, insbesondere vom Arbeitgeber oder aus öffentlichen Mitteln.

An obsolete verb meaning to embezzle or steal (money or property), especially from one's employer or a public fund.

1. Embezzle or misappropriate fundsC2formal

   To take money or property that has been entrusted to one's care, and use it fraudulently for personal gain.

   Veruntreuung

   • The treasurer was found to have peculated thousands of dollars from the charity.
   • He was arrested for peculating funds from the company's pension plan.
   • The accountant peculated the client's inheritance over several years.

   Synonymedefalcateembezzlemisappropriatepilferpurloinsteal