embezzlement
/ɛmˈbɛzlm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer: charges of fraud and embezzlement...
- At the same time, some senior staff within the bank were involved in frauds and embezzlement.
- Several family members are being sought by Turkish prosecutors on suspicion of embezzlement and fraud.
- Not included in the cost are theft, embezzlement, suicide, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect.
Synonyms
misappropriation, theft, stealing, robbing, robbery, thieving, pilfering, pilferage, appropriation, abstraction, swindling;
white-collar crime, fraud, larceny, misuse of funds
informal ripping off, filching, swiping, lifting, skimming, snaffling, monkey business
British informal pinching, nicking, half-inching, whipping, nobbling
formal peculation, defalcation, purloining