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Verb
1. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
(synonym) embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate
(hypernym) steal
(hyponym) fiddle
(derivation) malversation

v. embezzle, illegally appropriate money entrusted to one's care, defraud

v. embezzle, peculate; misuse

(v.) = embezzle ; misappropriate.
Ex: In 1892 Klas Linderfelt, the then ALA President, was jailed for 4 days on charges of embezzling more than $4,000 from library funds.
Ex: His trial came up in July 1892 and by then the city accountant had found that over $9,000 had been misappropriated.