embezzle
to steal money
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The BBC has found evidence of corruption by companies around the world doing business with Iraq while it was under the sanctions regime.
It has been described as the biggest financial scandal in history.
According to US senate investigators, Saddam Hussein EMBEZZLED $21bn by evading UN sanctions over a period of years.
(BBC News - 19th November 2004)
It has been described as the biggest financial scandal in history.
According to US senate investigators, Saddam Hussein EMBEZZLED $21bn by evading UN sanctions over a period of years.
(BBC News - 19th November 2004)
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em-bez-zle
verb
- To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, + Old French besillier, to ravage
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Synonyms for embezzle:
appropriate, bamboozle, beguile, bilk, burn, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, do, dupe, filch, fleece, flimflam, foil, milk, misappropriate, palm, pilfer, pinch, purloin, rip off, rob, rook, screw, shaft, skim, snatch, snitch, sucker into, swindle, swipe, take, take in, thieve
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verb
- To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler : Old French en-, + Old French besillier, to ravage
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Synonyms for embezzle:
appropriate, bamboozle, beguile, bilk, burn, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, do, dupe, filch, fleece, flimflam, foil, milk, misappropriate, palm, pilfer, pinch, purloin, rip off, rob, rook, screw, shaft, skim, snatch, snitch, sucker into, swindle, swipe, take, take in, thieve
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