A person who embezzles or steals money, especially from an employer; an embezzler.
Derived from bezzle with the suffix -o, common in informal English for naming people (like 'weirdo'). This slang term emerged in 20th-century workplace and criminal contexts.
The informal term 'bezzo' reveals how workplace culture sometimes develops its own vocabulary for crime—it's almost like a linguistic way of coping with workplace betrayal by making it sound less serious.
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