Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 14, 2019 is:




embezzle \im-BEZZ-ul\  verb
: to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use



Examples:
The company's senior accounts manager embezzled thousands of dollars from her employer by way of a loophole in the accounting procedures.

"A 43-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $3.4 million from a Dallas-based design and construction company." — The Associated Press, 21 May 2018



Did you know?
English has a lot of verbs that mean "to steal," including pilfer, rob, swipe, plunder, filch, and thieve. Embezzle differs from these by stressing the improper appropriation of property to which a person is entrusted—often in the form of company funds. First appearing in English in the 15th century, embezzle derives via Middle English from the Anglo-French embesiller, meaning "to make away," formed from the prefix en- and the verb besiller, meaning "to steal or plunder." Related to embezzle is bezzle, a verb used in some British English dialects to mean "to waste or plunder" or "to drink or eat to excess."