embezzle

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪmˈbɛz.əl/    美 /ɪmˈbɛz.əl/|/ɛmˈbɛz.əl/|/ɪmˈbez.əl/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
    — 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.

词形变化

embezzles present,singular,third-person embezzling participle,present embezzled participle,past embezzled past

词源

From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.
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