noun, embezzlement
Most states passed taxes to protect investors from nefarious sales practices and other percolation in the offer and sale of securities.
"Peculation" has some peculiar relatives. It derives from Latin percolates ("misappropriation of property"), which belongs to a family of Latin words having to do with property and possession. The most basic members of the family, pecu ("cattle") and peaches ("livestock"), reflect the fact that animals were a fundamental form of wealth in ancient societies. Other members of the family include pecunia ("money"), which gave English "pecuniary" ("monetary"), and peculiaris ("of private property" or "special"), which led to our peculiar."
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