MALVERSATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malversate mean? 

• MALVERSATE (verb)
  The verb MALVERSATE has 1 sense:

1. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

  Familiarity information: MALVERSATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALVERSATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

defalcate; embezzle; malversate; misappropriate; peculate

Context example:

The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family

Hypernyms (to "malversate" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "malversate"):

fiddle (commit fraud and steal from one's employer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

malversation (misconduct in public office)