kavaltaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
- defalcate verb To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
- embezzle verb To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
Senses
kavaltaa is used for these senses in English:
- betray (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
- betray (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- defalcate (intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
- embezzle (legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
betray — full definition
- verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
- verb To reveal something unintentionally.
defalcate — full definition
- verb To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
- verb To cut off (a part of something).
- verb To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).