Englishembezzlement
noun
the embezzlement of public funds:
misappropriation, theft, stealing, robbing, robbery, thieving, pilfering, pilferage, appropriation, abstraction, swindling;
white-collar crime, fraud, larceny, misuse of funds;
informal ripping off, filching, swiping, lifting, skimming, snaffling, monkey business;
British, informal pinching, nicking, half-inching, whipping, nobbling;
formal peculation, defalcation, purloining.