defalcation

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

apropriação

peculato

desfalque

Apropriação indébita

Sinônimos

embezzlement

misappropriation

misapplication

peculation

usurpation

pilferage

larceny

breach of trust

conversion

deficit

appropriation

Traduções

Veruntreuung

desfalco

Unterschlagung

υπεξαίρεση

malversation

détournement

σφετερισμός

appropriazione indebita

verduistering

détournement de fonds

desfalc

dilapidation

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[ˌdɛfəɫˈkeɪʃən]

Etimologia (Inglês)

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”).