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101fee — (fē) n. 1. A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege: »a license fee; tuition fees. 2. A charge for professional services: »a surgeon s fee. 3. A tip; a gratuity. 4. Law See …
102embezzle — [v] steal money, often from employer abstract, appropriate, defalcate, filch, forge, loot, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate, pilfer, purloin, put hand in cookie jar*, put hand in till*, skim, thieve; concept 139 Ant. compensate, give,… …
103misappropriate — [v] use wrongly; steal abuse, appropriate, defalcate, embezzle, misapply, misspend, misuse, peculate, plunder, pocket, rob, swindle; concepts 139,156,341 Ant. appropriate, use wisely …
104rob — [v] steal, deprive abscond, appropriate, bereave, break into, burglarize, burgle, cheat, con, cop*, defalcate, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, do out of*, embezzle, filch*, heist, hijack, hold up*, hustle, liberate, lift*, loot …
105steal — [v1] take something without permission abduct, appropriate, blackmail, burglarize, carry off, cheat, cozen, defraud, despoil, divert, embezzle, heist, hold for ransom, hold up, housebreak*, keep, kidnap, lift*, loot, make off with*,… …
106peculiar — [15] The etymological notion underlying peculiar is of ‘not being shared with others’, of being ‘one’s own alone’. It was borrowed from Latin pecūliāris ‘of private property’, a derivative of pecūlium ‘private property’, which in turn was based… …
107peculiar — [pi kyo͞ol′yər] adj. [ME peculier < L peculiaris < peculium: see PECULATE] 1. of only one person, thing, group, country, etc.; distinctive; exclusive 2. particular; unique; special [a matter of peculiar interest] 3. out of the ordinary;… …
108defalcator — noun someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use • Syn: ↑embezzler, ↑peculator • Derivationally related forms: ↑peculate (for: ↑peculator), ↑defalcate, ↑ …
109embezzlement — noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else • Syn: ↑peculation, ↑defalcation, ↑misapplication, ↑misappropriation • Derivationally related forms: ↑misappropriate (for: ↑ …
110embezzler — noun someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use • Syn: ↑defalcator, ↑peculator • Derivationally related forms: ↑peculate (for: ↑peculator), ↑defalcate …
