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Meanings of defalcate in English

Catalan
malversar

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

        malversar
        Usage of defalcate in English
        1
        Originally, to defalcate meant to cut or lop off a portion from the whole; to retrench, deduct, subtract.
        The Irish Times
        2
        I was surprised to find that the verb defalcate is still in use; I thought it had died out years ago.
        The Irish Times
        3
        An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him.
        The Canadian Commonwealth
        4
        The plasterers were hindered; the painters misunderstood orders; the paperers have defalcated, and the universe generally comes to a pause.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for defalcate
        Catalan
        malversar
        Defalcate through the time