0 past simple and past participle of embezzle
1 to secretly take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for:
In addition, domestic weavers embezzled some of the yarn lent by their clothiers in order to sell it on the black market.
Jones is responsible on this view for her employer's funds being embezzled, because she could have prevented it.
Moreover, support for wine amounts to an irresponsible waste of taxpayers' money, which not infrequently is actually embezzled.
It appears that a sum between £50 and £100 may have been embezzled by falsification of records and forgery of payment vouchers.
Balance sheets are being falsified, funds embezzled, and false information deftly fed to the public.
It appears that the typical thing is for the earnings of these commandeered labourers to be embezzled.
He quoted the case of a solicitor who embezzled £1,500 which had been entrusted to him by someone who wanted to clear his name.
An instance was related to me of the agent of a firm who had embezzled money.
