Peculation

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:52:06

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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