Definitionn. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Last update: October 12, 2015
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The tahsildars check the accounts of the kabz-i-mals, and, if they discover peculation, send them at once to be dealt with by the chief official authorities of the Gaza (department); all the electors of a mukhtar are, ipso facto, joint sureties for him. [Please select]
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A storekeeper had to be sent back for peculation designed to curtail Drake's range of action. [Please select]
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He placed supervisors of known intelligence and probity in each custom-house to watch and prevent fraud and peculation. [Please select]
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"Speculation, peculation, engrossing, forestalling," exclaimed Washington, "afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue." [Please select]
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One revelation after another showed officers, high and low, possessed with the spirit of peculation. [Please select]
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Lawless men, singly and in organized bands, engaged in general plunder; every species of intrigue and peculation and theft were resorted to. [Please select]
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They, indignant, accused the Jesuits, as a body, of peculation and fraud, and demanded repayment from the order. [Please select]
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