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Embezzle vs Fleece - What's the difference?

embezzle | fleece |

As verbs the difference between embezzle and fleece

is that embezzle is (legal|business) to steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works while fleece is to con or trick someone out of money.

As a noun fleece is

(uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

embezzle

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
  • * 1903, , Twelve Stories and a Dream
  • You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle'. For my own part, I ' embezzle .
  • * 1861,
  • You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

    Synonyms

    * defalcate * misappropriate * peculate

    Derived terms

    * embezzler * embezzlement

    References

    fleece

    English

    (wikipedia fleece)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
  • (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
  • (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
  • (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
  • (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
  • Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  • The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
  • Verb

    (fleec)
  • to con or trick someone out of money
  • to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
  • See also

    * (con) nickel and dime