Definition of Embezzled

1. Adjective. Taken for your own use in violation of a trust. "The banker absconded with embezzled funds"

Exact synonyms: Misappropriated
Similar to: Illegal

Definition of Embezzled

1. Verb. (past of embezzle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embezzled

1. embezzle [v] - See also: embezzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embezzled

embellishes
embellishing
embellishment
embellishments
embellisht
ember
ember-goose
emberizid
emberizids
emberizine
emberlike
embers
embetter
embetterment
embezzle
embezzled (current term)
embezzlement
embezzlements
embezzler
embezzlers
embezzles
embezzling
embiggen
embiggened
embiggening
embiggens
embillow
embiopteran
embiotocoid
embiotocoids

Literary usage of Embezzled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Where the embezzlement of public money is denounced, it need not be alleged in terms that the money embezzled was public money, but it is sufficient that ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant: Including Therein Masters and by Charles Manley Smith (1860)
"... terials as aforesaid, by persons who sell them knowing them to have selling, been purloined or embezzled ; be it therefore further enacted, that J^. ..."

3. The Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State) (1850)
"DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY, STOLEN OR embezzled. SECTION 753. When property, alleged to be stolen or embezzled, comes into custody of peace officer, ..."

4. The Penal Code of California: Enacted in 1872; as Amended in 1881 by California (1881)
"When property, alleged to have been stolen or embezzled, comes into the custody ... If the property stolen or embezzled has not been delivered to the owner, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1895)
"Ward's Right to recover embezzled Property, &c. — Courts of chancery will always aid the ward in recovering property embezzled, concealed, or conveyed away ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"We are of opinion, notwithstanding the allegation of counsel that there was no jurisdiction because the indictment did not charge that the letter embezzled ..."

7. An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law by Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Samuel Bealey Harrison, Robert Alexander Fisher (1884)
"51, for having in possession articles suspected to be purloined or embezzled, was not in the form given by the schedule to the latter statute, and purported ..."

8. The Code of Civil Procedure: Of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond (1872)
"Citation to person suspected to have embezzled estate, etc. 1460. Refusal to obey citation, penalty for and for embezzlement. May be compelled to disclose ..."

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