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- embezzle (something)
to steal money that you are responsible for or that belongs to your employer 盗用，挪用，贪污，侵吞（款项） Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmbezzle is used with these nouns as the object:- fund
- money
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘steal’): from Anglo-Norman French embesiler, from besiler in the same sense (compare with Old French besillier ‘maltreat, ravage’), of unknown ultimate origin. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.