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DEFALCATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defalcator mean?
• DEFALCATOR (noun)
The noun DEFALCATOR has 1 sense:
1. someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
Familiarity information: DEFALCATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
defalcator; embezzler; peculator
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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