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peculation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peculation has 1 sense
- peculation(n = noun.act) defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else; Array has particulars: raid, plunderage
is a kind of larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving
Derived form verb peculate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
peculation, n.
The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. [1913 Webster]
"Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined."
[1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
peculation
Stealing
N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.
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