embezzlement
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The fraudulent appropriation of property or funds entrusted to one's care by another.
The finance director was jailed for the embezzlement of company funds over a six-year period.
Business noun
The fraudulent conversion of money or property by someone to whom it was entrusted.
She was convicted of embezzlement after diverting company funds into a personal account.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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