noun (n)

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

  Synonym:
  defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation
  

  source: wordnet30
• The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.(noun)

  source: webster1913