embezzle
verb [transitive, intransitive]- embezzle (something)
to steal money that you are responsible for or that belongs to your employer Topics Crime and punishmentc2盗用,挪用,贪污,侵吞(款项) Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmbezzle is used with these nouns as the object:- fund
- money
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘steal’): from Anglo-Norman French embesiler, from besiler in the same sense (compare with Old French besillier ‘maltreat, ravage’), of unknown ultimate origin. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.