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Noun: peculation  `pe-kyu'ley-shun
  1. The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
    - embezzlement, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation

Derived forms: peculations

See also: peculate

Type of: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving

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