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Значения термина defalcate на английском

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

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Использование термина defalcate на английском
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...
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Translations for defalcate
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Defalcate через время