kavaltaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
• defalcate verb To steal money that has been placed in your care.
• embezzle verb To steal money that has been placed in your care, especially from your employer.

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

1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

defalcate — full definition

1. verb To steal money that has been placed in your care.
2. verb To cut away a part of something.
3. verb To take away part of an income, rent or similar payment.

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