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Verb(1) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care(2) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

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(1) Almost all officials in the country are corrupt although the amounts of money which they defalcate are various.(2) This little piece of ground, which belonged to property leased to a certain William, u2018it was thought no injury to defalcate u2019 and include in his lease.(3) A local Chairman and three others have been sued by the Bureau of Anti-Corruption for defalcating about Tk 1.5 lakh from the municipal fund.(4) The Geelong legal firm with which he commenced his articles collapsed six months later when one of its members defalcated substantial funds.(5) Gardner believed the defalcator should be permitted to return, having been sufficiently punished by his exile.(6) The investigation of some recent cases of defalcations has put the fear of a criminal investigation in their minds.(7) He was aware or ought to have been aware of such defalcations .(8) He admitted defalcating Rs.70 crore to play u2018satta,u2019 go on lavish foreign tours and bribe bank officials right and left.(9) The sum is claimed to be just under a million dollars and the method of the alleged defalcation was simple.(10) Moreover, defalcation often occurred in large-scale enterprises because of the complete lack of internal control.(11) He failed to keep insurance funds separate from agency funds and defalcated from the escrow account in the amount of approximately $400,000.(12) In the course of discharging his duties Chhaganbhai defalcated various amounts aggregating to Rs.53,000.(13) Without disclosing the source of his information, he wrote to Abdullah that it had come to his notice that he had defalcated heavy amounts from the state treasury.(14) As the firm did not maintain any regular audits, the clerk's defalcations remained undetected for a long time.(15) Two people convicted of defalcating $25,000 using hacked credit card numbers have been sentenced to up to eight years in prison.(16) I hope you're having fun and have not had any mishaps with the local defalcators !
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Verb
1. misappropriate
2. peculate
3. embezzle


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