defalcation

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

appropriazione indebita

appropriazione

malversazione

peculato

vuoto di cassa

sinonimi

embezzlement

misappropriation

misapplication

peculation

usurpation

pilferage

larceny

breach of trust

conversion

deficit

appropriation

Traduzioni

Veruntreuung

desfalco

Unterschlagung

υπεξαίρεση

détournement

apropriação

peculato

σφετερισμός

verduistering

malversation

détournement de fonds

desfalc

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[ˌdɛfəɫˈkeɪʃən]

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).