Thief vs Embezzle - What's the difference?
thief | embezzle |
One who has carried out a theft.
(obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
(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,
As a noun thief
is one who has carried out a theft.As a verb 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.thief
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Noun
(thieves)- (Bishop Hall)
Hyponyms
* burglar * cat burglar * mugger * robber * pickpocketDerived terms
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* English nouns with irregular pluralsembezzle
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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?