Found 2 items, similar to peculation.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: peculation peculation n : the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Peculation Peculation \Pec`u*la"tion\, n. The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. [1913 Webster] Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. --Burke. [1913 Webster]