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    DEFALCATOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own useplay

    Synonyms:

    defalcator; embezzler; peculator

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("defalcator" is a kind of...):

    beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

    stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

    Derivation:

    defalcate (appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use)

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