Verb
To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
To drink to excess; to revel.
Usage- Obsolete
To squander.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
Noun
The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle.
The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from an unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen.
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That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
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Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.