Meaning of defalcate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
   intransitive
2. To cut off (a part of something).
   obsolete, transitive
3. To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).
   obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“One would have thought the natural method in a plan of reformation vvould be, to take the preſent exiſting eſtimates as they ſtand; and then to ſhevv vvhat may be practicably and ſafely defalcated from them.”

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