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Значения термина peculate на английском

каталонский
malversar

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

        malversar
        Использование термина peculate на английском
        1
        We should let it peculate for another.
        The new yorker
        2
        The former is counted by hundreds of taels; the latter, by thousands, especially where there is a temptation to peculate.
        The Awakening of China
        3
        And this not from any real lack, but simply from the mistakes of a bungling, peculating Government.
        The Secret City
        4
        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 ...
        5
        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
        каталонский
        malversar
        Peculate через время