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Embezzle vs Misproportion - What's the difference?

embezzle | misproportion |

As verbs the difference between embezzle and misproportion

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 misproportion is to give the wrong proportions to.

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

    misproportion

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give the wrong proportions to.
    • (Webster 1913)