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单词 defalcation
释义
defalcation
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n

WORD FAMILY
defalcation: defalcations+/defalcate: defalcated, defalcating, defalcation, defalcator/defalcator: defalcators
USAGE EXAMPLES
“You have a keen sense of defalcation. Perhaps I should add a third D.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007)
Chief among them are Carrodos’s manservant, Parkinson, “an unquenchable stickler for decorum,” and Louis Carlyle, a private investigator specializing in “defalcation and divorce.”
Washington Post(May 16, 2016)
So far Mr. Wynn had discovered defalcations amounting to nearly £20,000, though the bottom of the peculation had not yet been reached. 
Davies, R. Rice, The Cambrian Sketch-Book—Tales, Sce...(2012)
1n the sum of money that is misappropriated
Hyper
amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money
a quantity of money
2n the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation
raid
an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
plunderage
the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard)
larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
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