#4 語彙の用例: embezzle, embezzlement, sequester

embezzle/embezzlement

steal, pocket (着服する) と同じ意味の動詞。横領する。名詞も重要。
ちなみに，「適切な」という形容詞 appropriate の他動詞用法にも「横領する」の意味がある。

コロケーション

• embezzle money / funds from 場所

• charge against 人 for embezzlement (告発する)

• be arrested for embezzlement

• be under suspicion of embezzlement

• be suspected of embezzlement

実例

The former director of Mississippi’s welfare agency was arrested on charges that he took part in a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars for personal use and to pay for a former professional wrestler to go to a luxury drug rehabilitation center https://t.co/pS60Zrl3PC

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 6, 2020

After years of financial hardship, she craved a life of luxury. Her remedy was to embezzle $17 million from the Danish state https://t.co/sYe0Z5Uh2x

— Bloomberg (@business) March 1, 2020

A Vatican judge has ordered 10 people, including an Italian cardinal, to stand trial for alleged financial crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion and abuse of office. https://t.co/YWTa1zNjuf

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 3, 2021

sequester

法律用語に近いのかもしれない。「ウィズダム英和辞典 第3版」によれば、陪審員などが、一般の人々との接触を避けるために隔離されることと説明されていた。a sequestered [= reclusive] life は「隠遁生活」。「ひきこもる」という意味もある。

コロケーション

• 自然科学の分野では sequester carbon の表現が割とある印象。

実例

Posidonia oceanica is a seagrass species that grows in the Mediterranean Sea and is known to improve water quality and sequester carbon. Researchers say it also has the ability to trap plastics in the sea and could prevent the debris from drifting farther into the ocean. pic.twitter.com/jPks4YOPaP

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 31, 2021

Efforts are underway to grow towering new redwood forests, cloned from existing trees, that can sequester massive amounts of carbon and could help combat climate change. https://t.co/2GQROiVHI0 pic.twitter.com/llzNX1hw9J

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 29, 2019

combat の使い方もポイント。

JUST IN: Obama will give back 5 percent of his salary in solidarity with federal workers furloughed as part of sequester, sources say

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 3, 2013

語注： furlough は「一時休業させる」

The judge in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial decided not to sequester the jury in the case following protests in Minnesota over the fatal police shooting of a Black man. https://t.co/xz6YCdIsYU

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 12, 2021