Meaning

1 senses
  1. One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.

    1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.

    Veruntreuer, Veruntreuerin

    казнокра́дkaznokrád, растра́тчикrastrátčik

    someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The paper vilified him as an embezzler.

    ruГазета обличала его как казнокрада.

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  2. This evidence revealed him to be an embezzler.

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  3. Yanni is an embezzler.

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  4. The embezzlers have been apprehended.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one who steals money they have been trusted with:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who steals money they have been trusted with:

Origin

From embezzle + -er.

From embezzle + -er.

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Forms

plural: embezzlers
Singularembezzler
Pluralembezzlers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedembezzle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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