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verb-intransitive:
- To misuse funds; embezzle.
- To dedicate defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
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verb:
- To misappropriate resources; to embezzle.
- appropriate (as property entrusted to 1's treatment) fraudulently to one's very own use
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verb-transitive:
- To take off; to remove or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, reports, rents, income, etc.
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others:
- To stop; eliminate or subtract part of; curtail: utilized chiefly of cash, records, rents, earnings, etc.
- become bad of defalcation; default in one single's records.
- Curtailed.
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Definition for "defalcate"
- To misuse funds; embezzle.
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Sentence for "defalcate"
- Arab _Ar'ab_, not _arab_ arid _ar'id_…
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Synonym for "defalcate"
- embezzle
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Verb Forms for "defalcate"
- defalcated
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Hyponym for "defalcate"
- fiddle
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Hypernym for "defalcate"
- steal
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Cross Reference for "defalcate"
- lop
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Etymologically Related for "defalcate"
- falcate
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Form for "defalcate"
- defalcated
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Urban Dictionary for "defalcate"
- embezzle (resources you're entrusted with)
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