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verb · 78% connection
To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Apply
verb · 78% connection
To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Assessment
noun · 78% connection
A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Bail
v./t. · 78% connection
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be fait…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Bailee
noun · 78% connection
The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Bailiff
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Bailment
noun · 78% connection
A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Barratry
noun · 78% connection
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Board
noun · 78% connection
A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Breach
noun · 78% connection
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Charge
verb · 78% connection
A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Chase
verb · 78% connection
An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Commission
noun · 78% connection
The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Confine
verb · 78% connection
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Constrain
verb · 78% connection
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Defaulter
noun · 78% connection
One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a pecula…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
Deposit
verb · 78% connection
That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appropriate, fraudulently, property, intrusted, care.
