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Forgery

//ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of forging metal into shape. countable, uncountable

    "the forgery of horseshoes"

  2. 2
    criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud. countable, uncountable

    "the forgery of a bond"

  4. 4
    a copy that is represented as the original wordnet
  5. 5
    That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    An invention, creation. archaic, countable, uncountable

Etymology

Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

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