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embezzle

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Verb — To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

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From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.

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