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Fraud

//fɹɔd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage wordnet
  3. 3
    Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain. countable, uncountable

    "When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends."

  4. 4
    intentional deception resulting in injury to another person wordnet
  5. 5
    The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme wordnet
  2. 7
    A person who performs any such trick. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    a person who makes deceitful pretenses wordnet
  4. 9
    A trap or snare. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud"

Verb
  1. 1
    To defraud. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

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