peculator

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
peculator
    n 1: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own
         use [syn: {embezzler}, {defalcator}, {peculator}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Peculator \Pec"u*la`tor\, n. [L.]
   One who peculates. "Peculators of the public gold." --Cowper.
   [1913 Webster]
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