资料来源 : pyDict

挪用公款;侵吞

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Peculation \Pec`u*la"tion\, n.
   The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the
   public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods
   intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement;
   embezzlement.

         Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of
         peculations has been ruined.             --Burke.

资料来源 : WordNet®

peculation
     n : the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted
         to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: {embezzlement},
          {defalcation}, {misapplication}, {misappropriation}]