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nounthe fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Definition that contains peculation
- question place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
- wonder place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
- visionary a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
- tout one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
- rationalist someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
- tipster one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
- oken German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
- positivist someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
- lorenz okenfuss German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
- theologize make theoretical speculations about theology or discuss theological subjects