{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY July 14, 2019------------- embezzle

WORD OF THE DAY July 14, 2019

embezzle    verb | im-BEZZ-ul   Definition   : to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use   Scroll down for more about embezzle     TRENDING NOW: gerrymander gerrymandering concentration camp animus SEE ALL       PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 7/12/19     What It Means to Get 'Canceled'   The Roots of 'Radical'     '-Gate': Notes on a Scandal       WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE     Farm Idioms Quiz   Not your children's farm quiz.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! TAKE ME THERE        Did You Know?   English has a lot of verbs that mean "to steal," including pilfer, rob, swipe, plunder, filch, and thieve. Embezzle differs from these by stressing the improper appropriation of property to which a person is entrusted—often in the form of company funds. First appearing in English in the 15th century, embezzle derives via Middle English from the Anglo-French embesiller, meaning "to make away," formed from the prefix en- and the verb besiller, meaning "to steal or plunder." Related to embezzleis bezzle, a verb used in some British English dialects to mean "to waste or plunder" or "to drink or eat to excess."     Examples of EMBEZZLE   The company's senior accounts manager embezzled thousands of dollars from her employer by way of a loophole in the accounting procedures.   "A 43-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $3.4 million from a Dallas-based design and construction company." — The Associated Press, 21 May 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   What is the meaning of the term Ponzi scheme?   VIEW THE ANSWER              MORE WORD FUN:       WORD GAMES

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