defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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(noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |
defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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falcate | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falciform, sickle-shaped |
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falchion | (noun) a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point | - |
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falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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falcon | (noun) diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight | - |
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(verb) hunt with falcons | - |
falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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falconry | (noun) the art of training falcons to hunt and return | - |
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gerfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon |
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gyrfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gerfalcon |
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