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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.

The act of taking for one's own use, money intrusted to one's care'theft; embezzlement, as of a bank's funds.

n. Act or practice of peculating; embezzlement of public money or goods.