noun (n)

• the sum of money that is misappropriated(noun.possession)

  source: wordnet30
• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation
  

  source: wordnet30
• A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.(noun)

  source: webster1913