embezzler
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 31
- Words With Friends
- 34
- Letters
- 9
/ɛmˈbɛz(ə)lɚ/
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/ɛmˈbɛz(ə)lɚ/ · /ɪm-/
Definition of embezzler
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.
“1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.”
“At the time, I was deeply involved with the handsome embezzler who led a major telecom company into bankruptcy.”
“That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.”
“There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From embezzle + -er.
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