Defalcation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFALCATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or an instance of embezzling
• A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
• That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
• An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.
• the sum of money that is misappropriated
• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
• the act of misappropriating money or embezzling (funds).
• the act of taking away or deduction.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• deduction

Words related to DEFALCATION

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How to use DEFALCATION in a sentence

• The way in which this defalcation was so long concealed and the steps taken to indemnify the United States, as far as practicable, against loss will also be presented to you.
• Since 1789 the treasury has disbursed more than seven billions of dollars without one serious defalcation.
• He could not conceal his defalcation, and there was no longer a shadow of hope of replacing the money.
• Even after the defalcation was made known there was nothing to indicate that any part of the money had been appropriated to his own use.
• The names, therefore, of those who were the beneficiaries of this remarkable defalcation will, no doubt, remain a secret in the bosom of William L.
• It was a libel case between two very eminent and powerful financiers, against both of whom charges of considerable defalcation were brought.
• That to a righteous man, little used to all unhallowed sources of exhilaration, this should have been a stepping-stone to a defalcation from God, was likely.
• But the history of the Church of Caesarea affords the most extraordinary specimen of this defalcation.
• Fox said, that the recent defalcation of the King of Prussia, after he had obtained our gold, ought to operate as a caution against all advances to German princes.
• That defalcation, however, had been diminished to about L1,250,000, by a payment from China of about L725,000.
• Thus far there has never been a fraud or defalcation that was attributable to inadequate checks in the system.
• Darkest of the dark omens for the slave, in that dark day, was the defalcation of Daniel Webster.
• And, finally, there is no defalcation of revenue, no pressure of taxation.
• The assembly found a powerful argument in favour of their persistent contention for a complete control of the public revenues and expenditures in the defalcation of Mr.
• He preached it without defalcation or discount, and this prodigious faith made his preaching immensely tonic.
• Evidently there had been a defalcation on rather a large scale.
• The author therefore is not warranted from the known error in some of the entries, to make a general defalcation from the whole balance in our favor.
• But I will never suffer the sacred name of economy to be bestowed upon arbitrary defalcation of charge.
• Livingston for the sum of his defalcation thirty-four years before.
• At the time this was done, Tobias Watkins was in prison in Washington for a defalcation of only a few hundreds to the Government.

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