peculation

noun

Definition of peculationnext
as in embezzlement

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  1. graft
  2. larceny
  3. robbery
  4. misapplication
  5. thievery
Noun
  • The nation’s last cabinet minister charged with graft was Wee Toon Boon, who was found guilty in 1975 and jailed for accepting gifts.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Iswaran was initially charged with 35 counts including graft.
    Josh Xiao and Yihui Xie / Bloomberg, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of graft
Noun
  • There, a 23-year-old man, who police said was caught on home surveillance cameras swiping delivery packages, was arrested and arraigned last week in district court and charged with five counts of larceny.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Court docs show that Avery was charged with felony breaking and entering and larceny.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of larceny
Noun
  • Prior to these robbery convictions, Portades was convicted of robbery as a minor, as well as drug and weapons charges as an adult.
    Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Moore’s lawyers said his original attorneys did not analyze the crime scene carefully and left unchallenged prosecutors’ contention that Moore, who came into the store unarmed, fired at a customer and that his intention from the start was a robbery.
    Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of robbery
Noun
  • Those misapplications might trigger personal liability for the guarantor, the former principal of the mortgage borrower – but the guarantor can no longer do anything to prevent it.
    Joshua Stein, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In detailed chapters on topics like modern war-game simulations and the misapplication of game theory in justifying mass privatization, Clancy warns of the societal risks of allowing mathematical models to govern political decisions.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of misapplication
Noun
  • Hearts And Minds Many non-Web3 people will point to the industry's past failures—corruption, rug pulls, scams and outright thievery—and conflate them with the entire industry.
    Matvii Diadkov, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Teachers’ Lounge A teacher investigates some thievery going on at her school.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
Definition of thievery
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