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fraud

(frôd)

1. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.

2. A piece of trickery; a trick.

a. One that defrauds; a cheat.

b. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.

[Middle English fraude, from Old French, from Latin fraus, fraud-.]

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fraud

(frɔːd)

1. deliberate deception, trickery, or cheating intended to gain an advantage

2. an act or instance of such deception

3. something false or spurious: his explanation was a fraud.

4. informal a person who acts in a false or deceitful way

[C14: from Old French fraude, from Latin fraus deception]

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fraud

(frɔd)

n.

1. deceit or trickery perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.

2. a particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud; election frauds.

3. something that is not what it pretends.

4. a deceitful person; impostor.

[1300–50; Middle English fraude < Old French < Latin fraud-, s. of fraus deceit, injury]

syn: See deceit.

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Noun	1.	fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" barratry - (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo identity theft - the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge mail fraud - use of the mails to defraud someone election fraud - misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election constructive fraud, legal fraud - comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence collateral fraud, extrinsic fraud - fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial fraud in fact, positive fraud - actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another fraud in the factum - fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract fraud in the inducement - fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts intrinsic fraud - fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
	2.	fraud - a person who makes deceitful pretenses faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, pretender, fake beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true name dropper - someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends ringer - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
	3.	fraud - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraudulence chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile, chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

fraud

noun

1. deception, deceit, treachery, swindling, guile, trickery, duplicity, double-dealing, chicanery, sharp practice, imposture, fraudulence, spuriousness He was jailed for two years for fraud.
deception virtue, integrity, honesty, fairness, good faith, probity, rectitude, trustworthiness

2. scam, craft, cheat, sting (informal), deception (slang), artifice, humbug, canard, stratagems, chicane a fraud involving pension and social security claims

3. hoax, trick, cheat, con (informal), deception, sham, spoof (informal), prank, swindle, ruse, practical joke, joke, fast one (informal), imposture He never wrote the letter; it was a fraud.

4. (Informal) impostor, cheat, fake, bluffer, sham, hoax, hoaxer, forgery, counterfeit, pretender, charlatan, quack, fraudster, swindler, mountebank, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), double-dealer, phoney or phony (informal) He believes many psychics are frauds.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

fraud

noun

1. An act of cheating:

cheat, swindle, victimization.

Informal: flimflam.

Slang: gyp.

2. One who fakes:

charlatan, fake, faker, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack.

Translations

تَزْوِيرخِداع، إحْتيال، غِشخَدّاع، غَشّاش، مُزَوِّر

podvodpodvodník

bedragerbedragerisnydsvindler

Betrug Betrüger Betrügerin Hochstapler Schwindler

απάτη

fraude impostor estafa

petos

fraude imposteur piège à cons tromperie escroquerie

prevara

sviksvikari, loddari

frode impostore dolo

詐欺

사기

apgavikiškaiapgavikiškas

krāpniekskrāpšana

мошенничество жулик мошенник

goljufponeverba

bedrägeri

การโกง

dolandırıcılık sahtekârsahtekârlık

lừa đảo

欺诈行为欺骗骗子

fraud

[frɔːd]

A. N

1. (Jur) → fraude m

2. (= trickery) → estafa f; (= trick, con) → engaño m, timo m

3. (= person) → impostor(a) m/f, farsante mf

B. CPD fraud squad N → brigada f de delitos económicos, brigada f anticorrupción

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fraud

[ˈfrɔːd]

(= crime) → fraude f
He was jailed for fraud → On l'a mis en prison pour fraude.

(= impostor) → imposteur m
He's not a real doctor, he's a fraud → Ce n'est pas un vrai médecin, c'est un imposteur.

(= charlatan) → imposteur m

modif [charge, investigation] → pour fraude
a fraud case → une affaire de fraudeFraud Squad fraud squad n → service m de la répression des fraudes

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fraud

(no pl: = trickery) → Betrug m; (= trick) → Schwindel m, → Betrug m; frauds → Betrügereien pl

(= fraudulent person) → Betrüger(in) m(f), → Schwindler(in) m(f); (feigning illness) → Simulant(in) m(f); (= fraudulent thing) → (reiner) Schwindel, fauler Zauber (inf); the whole thing was a fraud → das ganze war (ein einziger) Schwindel or reiner Schwindel

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fraud

[frɔːd] n (Law) → frode f; (trickery, trick) → truffa; (person) → imbroglione/a, impostore/a

fraud

(froːd) noun

1. (an act of) dishonesty. He was sent to prison for fraud.

2. a person who pretends to be something that he isn't. That man is not a famous writer, he's a fraud.

ˈfraudulent (-djulənt) , ((American) -dʒulənt) adjective

dishonest or intending to deceive. fraudulent behaviour.

ˈfraudulently adverb

ˈfraudulence noun

fraud

→ تَزْوِير podvod snyd Betrug απάτη fraude petos fraude prevara frode 詐欺 사기 fraude bedrageri oszustwo fraude мошенничество bedrägeri การโกง dolandırıcılık lừa đảo 欺诈行为

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"Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud?

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In general, the beginning and the causes of seditions in all states are such as I have now described, and revolutions therein are brought about in two ways, either by violence or fraud: if by violence, either at first by compelling them to submit to the change when it is made.

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The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended, excused herself, saying, "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants and to run off; and you, too, can quickly outstrip me in your rapid flight.

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AN eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused of having obtained his appointment by fraud.

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The unhappy girl committed suicide on discovering the fraud to which she had been subjected.

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But it warn't no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar.

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Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in telling you that it was the fact of Tchebaroff's intervention that made me suspect a fraud. Oh!

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The principal duty of a judge, is to suppress force and fraud; whereof force is the more pernicious, when it is open, and fraud, when it is close and disguised.

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This Jellia dared not tell, having been threatened with death by the witch if she confessed the fraud. But Glinda, sweet and fair though she was, understood magic better than any other person in the Land of Oz.

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The Sun was sunk, and after him the Starr Of HESPERUS, whose Office is to bring Twilight upon the Earth, short Arbiter Twixt Day and Night, and now from end to end Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon round: When SATAN who late fled before the threats Of GABRIEL out of EDEN, now improv'd In meditated fraud and malice, bent On mans destruction, maugre what might hap Of heavier on himself, fearless return'd.

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There is hardly a subject of litigation between individuals, which may not involve those ingredients of fraud, accident, trust, or hardship, which would render the matter an object of equitable rather than of legal jurisdiction, as the distinction is known and established in several of the States.

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Supposing her confession to have been made, or supposing the woman whom she had personated to have discovered the means of exposing the fraud, what advantage, she now asked herself, would Miss Roseberry derive from Mercy Merrick's disgrace?