meaning of defalcate
1. To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
2. To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
3. appropriate as property entrusted to ones care fraudulently to ones own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy
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