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defalcation
noun
1 defalcation
The sum of money that is misappropriated.
Roget 808:
nonpayment;
default,
defalcation;
protest,
repudiation;
application of the sponge†;
whitewashing.
insolvency,
bankruptcy,
failure;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
run upon a bank;
overdrawn account.
waste paper bonds;
dishonored bills,
protested bills;
bogus check,
bogus cheque,
rubber check.
bankrupt,
insolvent,
debtor,
lame duck,
man of straw,
welsher,
stag,
defaulter,
levanter†.
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Roget 53:
incompleteness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency,
short measure;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
imperfection
etc.
651;
immaturity
etc.
(nonpreparation)
674;
half measures.
[part wanting]
defect,
deficit,
defalcation,
omission;
caret;
shortage;
interval
etc.
198;
break
etc.
(discontinuity)
70;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
missing link.
missing piece,
missing part,
gap,
hole,
lacuna.
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Roget 195:
contraction,
reduction,
diminution;
decrease of size
etc.
36;
defalcation,
decrement;
lessening,
shrinking
etc.
v.;
compaction;
tabes†,
collapse,
emaciation,
attenuation,
tabefaction†,
consumption,
marasmus†,
atrophy;
systole,
neck,
hourglass.
condensation,
compression,
compactness;
compendium
etc.
596;
squeezing
etc.
v.;
strangulation;
corrugation;
astringency;
astringents,
sclerotics;
contractility,
compressibility;
coarctation†.
inferiority in size.
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Roget 304:
shortcoming,
failure;
falling short
etc.
v.;
default,
defalcation;
leeway;
labor in vain,
no go.
incompleteness
etc.
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
failure
etc.
732.
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2 defalcation
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.
synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation.
Dutch: verdonkeremaning, ontvreemding, malversatie, verduistering
Polish: malwersacja, defraudacja
Moby thesaurus: abuse, abuse of office, arrear, arrearage, arrears, befoulment, break, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, decline, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, defilement, delinquency, desecration, discontinuity, diversion, embezzlement, failing, failure, falling short, fault, fouling, gap, hiatus, imperfection, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, interval, lack, lacuna, laxness, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, missing link, misusage, misuse, need, negligence, omission, outage, paucity, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, poverty, profanation, prostitution, remissness, scant, scantiness, scarceness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, slackness, slump, ullage, underage, violation, want, wantage ... show more.
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