bezzle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle.
  2. The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from an unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen.
    — That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
  3. The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.
动词 v.
  1. To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot. obsolete,transitive
  2. To drink to excess; to revel. obsolete
  3. To squander. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

bezzles present,singular,third-person bezzling participle,present bezzled participle,past bezzled past bezzles plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English besilen, from Old French besiler, besillier (“to mistreat, pillage”); or shortened from English embezzle.
词源 2
Coined by John Kenneth Galbraith, from embezzle.
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