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What does embezzle mean?

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Verb
  1. (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
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Secret payments encourage the ruling elite to embezzle money instead of investing it in long-term development.
They embezzle billions of dollars by overstating their imports and pocketing the difference.
We insouciantly embezzle the leather industry codes, and adapt them to our tender and mischievous world.
Mobile transactions are more traceable than cash, making it harder for corrupt officials to embezzle undetected.
It will be very difficult, if not impossible to embezzle government resources under the close watch, minute by minute, of all the Peruvians.
Bolanos said his two predecessors had motivated the legislature to impeach him because he would not allow them to embezzle government money.

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