malversate

An obsolete verb meaning to engage in corrupt or fraudulent behavior, especially in a public office or position of trust; to misappropriate funds.

• 🇫🇷Verbe rare ou littéraire signifiant se livrer à un comportement corrompu ou frauduleux, notamment dans une fonction publique ou de confiance ; détourner ou s'approprier illicitement des fonds.

1. Fraudulent misappropriation C2 formal legal

   To take or use someone else's entrusted money or property dishonestly for one's own benefit.

   • The treasurer was found guilty of malversating funds from the charity.
   • He malversated company assets to pay for his personal expenses.
   • The auditor discovered that the manager had been malversating client deposits for years.

   🇫🇷Détournement frauduleux

   Synonymes: defalcateembezzlemisappropriatepeculatepurloinsteal

• malversated past participle
• malversated past simple
• malversating present participle
• malversates third person singular