着ちゃく服ふく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

embezzlement; misappropriation; pocketing

Used for taking money or property that one is responsible for and making it one's own. Common in news and legal-style reporting, often as 金を着服する or 着服した疑い.

• 社しゃ員いんが会かい社しゃの資し金きんを着ちゃく服ふくした疑うたがいで逮たい捕ほされた。

  An employee was arrested on suspicion of embezzling company funds.

• 彼かれは集あつめた会かい費ひを着ちゃく服ふくしていた。

  He had been pocketing the membership fees he collected.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

dressing oneself; putting on clothes

A literal clothing-related use of 着服する. In modern everyday Japanese, 服を着る or 着用する is normally used instead, so this sense can sound rare or formal and may be confused with the embezzlement meaning.

• 古ふるい文ぶん章しょうでは、「着ちゃく服ふくする」が服ふくを着きることを表あらわす場ば合あいがある。

  In older writing, 着服する can mean putting on clothes.