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Verb: peculate  'pe-kyu`leyt
  1. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
    "The accountant peculated thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
    - embezzle, defalcate, misappropriate, malversate

Derived forms: peculated, peculates, peculating

See also: peculation, peculator

Type of: steal

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