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peculation

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pec·u·late  (pky-lt)
tr. & intr.v. pec·u·lat·ed, pec·u·lat·ing, pec·u·lates
To embezzle (funds) or engage in embezzlement.
[Latin peclr, peclt-, from peclium, private property; see peku- in Indo-European roots.]
pecu·lation n.
pecu·lator n.
peculation
embezzlement. — peculator, n.
See also: Theft
embezzlement.
See also: Crime
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Noun1.peculation - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
embezzlement, misappropriation, defalcation, misapplication
raid - an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
plunderage - the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard)
larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
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Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands, but tears it to pieces before the tribunes.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
, when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the reign of Queen Anne.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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