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Significats de peculate en anglès

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Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.

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        Ús de peculate en anglès
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        We should let it peculate for another.
        The new yorker
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        The former is counted by hundreds of taels; the latter, by thousands, especially where there is a temptation to peculate.
        The Awakening of China
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        And this not from any real lack, but simply from the mistakes of a bungling, peculating Government.
        The Secret City
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        He was charged with various acts of extortion on the citizens of Philadelphia, and with peculating on the public funds.
        Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
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        Why are all such bequests subject to the interference, the vexatious, arbitrary, peculating interference of the Orange commissioners for charitable donations?
        Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 / With His Letters and Journals
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        Translations for peculate
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        Peculate a través del temps