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defalcating

defalcating is the present participle and gerund of defalcate.

Meaning of defalcate

Verb

defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)

  1. (intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut off (a part of something).
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).
    • 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.1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 42

Questions about defalcating

What is defalcating the present participle and gerund of?
Defalcating is the present participle and gerund of defalcate.

Words near defalcating in the dictionary

  1. defaitism
  2. Defaka
  3. defalcate
  4. defalcated
  5. defalcates
  6. defalcating
  7. defalcation
  8. defalcations
  9. defalcator
  10. defalcators
  11. DeFalco

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