Embezzle vs Launder - What's the difference?
embezzle | launder |
(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
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(obsolete) A washerwoman.
(mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
A gutter (for rainwater)
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
(obsolete) To lave; to wet.
(money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
As verbs the difference between embezzle and launder
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 launder is to wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.As a noun launder is
(obsolete) a washerwoman.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?