peculate

• Verbe désuet signifiant s'approprier ou voler (de l'argent ou des biens), en particulier à son employeur ou dans un fonds public.

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.

   Détourner des fonds

   • 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.

   Synonymesdefalcateembezzlemisappropriatepilferpurloinsteal