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PECULATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peculator mean? 

PECULATOR (noun)
  The noun PECULATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own useplay

  Familiarity information: PECULATOR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PECULATOR (noun)


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 ("peculator" 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:

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


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