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Plunderage

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.

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Defalcation 76% connected

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.

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Embezzlement 76% connected

The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement o…

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Misapplication 76% connected

A wrong application.

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Misappropriation 76% connected

Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

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Peculation 76% connected

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for manag…

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Sack 74% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Sack 74% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Advance verb · 78% connection

A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment before…

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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…

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Berth verb · 78% connection

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

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Capstan noun · 78% connection

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…

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Cry verb · 78% connection

To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods…

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Defraud verb · 78% connection

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to che…

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Depeculation noun · 78% connection

A robbing or embezzlement.

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Disavow verb · 78% connection

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disow…

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Economic science noun · 78% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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Embark verb · 78% connection

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

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Entrepot noun · 78% connection

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shippi…

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Entry noun · 78% connection

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a sh…

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Factor noun · 78% connection

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts…

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Factory noun · 78% connection

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating…

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GDP noun · 78% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

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Gross profit noun · 78% connection

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

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Gross profit margin noun · 78% connection

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

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Inventory noun · 78% connection

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real est…

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