defalcation

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant.
2. (countable, uncountable) Embezzlement.

Concepts

détournement

malversation

détournement de fonds

dilapidation

Synonymes

embezzlement

misappropriation

misapplication

peculation

usurpation

pilferage

larceny

breach of trust

conversion

deficit

appropriation

Traductions

Veruntreuung

desfalco

Unterschlagung

υπεξαίρεση

apropriação

desfalc

peculato

σφετερισμός

verduistering

appropriazione indebita

peculato

malversazione

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[ˌdɛfəɫˈkeɪʃən]

Étymologie (Anglais)

Late 15th century, from Medieval Latin dēfalcātiōnem, accusative singular of dēfalcātiō (literally “cutting off, lopping off with a sickle”), nominalization of dēfalcō, from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”), from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).
By surface analysis, defalcate + -ion (“the act of”).