Embezzle vs Misappropriate - What's the difference?
embezzle | misappropriate |
(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
* 1861,
To use something wrongly, or illegally
To embezzle
Misappropriate is a synonym of embezzle.
As verbs the difference between embezzle and misappropriate
is that embezzle is to steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works while misappropriate is to use something wrongly, or illegally.embezzle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 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 .
- 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?
