Em-bĕz'le-ment, n.

n. The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use what is intrusted to one's care and management; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money, or public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

☞ Embezzlement differs from larceny in this, that the latter implies a wrongful taking from another's possession, but embezzlement denotes a wrongful appropriation of what is already in the wrong-doer's possession.