embezzle

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.Examples: "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?"Synonyms: defalcate, have one's hand in the till, misappropriate, peculate