defalcation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 [ˌdɛfəɫˈkeɪʃən]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant. countable,uncountable
  2. Embezzlement. countable,uncountable
    — Granting that Mr. Ireland had gone into his office at ten minutes to ten o'clock at night for the purpose of extracting £5000 worth of notes and gold from the bank safe, whilst giving the theft the appearance of a night burglary; […] why should he, at nine o'clock the following morning, fall in a dead faint and get cerebral congestion at sight of a defalcation he knew had occurred?

词形变化

defalcations plural

词汇关系

相关词
defalcate falcate

词源

Late 15th century, from Medieval Latin dēfalcātiōnem, accusative singular of dēfalcātiō (literally “cutting off, lopping off with a sickle”), nominalization of dēfalcō, from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”), from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).
By surface analysis, defalcate + -ion (“the act of”).
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