Peculation vs Peculate – What’s the difference?

Peculation vs Peculate - What's the difference?
Peculation is a related term of peculate.As a noun peculation is (legal|chiefly|historical) the wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property. As a verb peculate is to embezzle.

peculation

English

Noun

(en noun )

  • (legal, chiefly, historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.
  • * 1885 , , Nuttie’s Father , ch. 20:
  • Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.
  • * 1989 , , The Devil’s Mode :
  • She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars.
  • * 1990 , 2239):
  • It was a feature of Athens’ democratic constitution that at the end of their year in office Athenian officials had to submit an account of their service, financial and otherwise, to public scrutiny. Ephialtes took the opportunity to bring charges of peculation against the outgoing archons who were about to enter the Areopagus and succeeded in having them removed from that council.

    Usage notes

    * is the usual term used for this crime in modern laws.

    Anagrams

    *

    peculate

    English

    Verb

    (peculat)

  • To embezzle
  • Synonyms

    * defalcate
    * embezzle
    * misappropriate