Meaning of PECULATION
| Pronunciation: | | `pekyu'leyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else |
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| | Synonyms: | | defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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| | See Also: | | larceny, plunderage, raid, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pec`u*la"tion\, 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.
Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of
peculations has been ruined. --Burke.
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