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},
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"text": "1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner\nYou let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?"
}
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "挪用"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "desviar"
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"alt": "обманным путём чужие деньги",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "اِخْتَلَسَ"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "mənimsəmək"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "злоупотребявам"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "malversar"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "挪用"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "malversacii"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "kavaltaa"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "détourner"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "unterschlagen"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "υπεξαιρώ"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "מעל"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "sikkaszt"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"word": "hűtlenül kezel"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "cúigleáil"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "횡령하다"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "pecūlor"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "cabochi des sous"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "underslå"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "sprzeniewierzyć"
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"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "desviar"
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"alt": "обманным путём чужие деньги",
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"roman": "prisváivatʹ",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
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"word": "расхища́ть"
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"word": "расхи́тить"
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"roman": "otuđiti",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "отуђити"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "malversar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "desfalcar"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "förskingra"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to steal money that one has been trusted with",
"word": "embeslo"
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"word": "embezzle"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.