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To embezzle is to steal money from the place where you work, quietly, by using your job. It is not grabbing a wallet in the street. It is taking money you were trusted to look after — a company’s funds, a club’s savings, a client’s account — and keeping it as if it were yours. People in offices, banks, shops, and government jobs get accused of this. It is a crime. The word is formal: news, courts, and serious talk. You would not say a child embezzled a . The hurt sits in the broken trust as much as in the missing money. The person who does it is an ; the crime is embezzlement.
挪用公款；監守自盜
組成em- + an old French verb besillier (“to torment, destroy”), whose further origin is unknown. The word came through Anglo-Norman with the sense “to steal, to make something disappear.”
同家族的字
- embezzlementthe noun: the crime of doing this
- embezzlerthe person who does it
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
embezzleverb/ɪmˈbɛz.əl/
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businesslawTo steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
- You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。