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1. (n.) fraud
deceit or trickery perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
2. fraud
a particular instance of such deceit or trickery:
mail fraud; election frauds.
3. fraud
something that is not what it pretends.
4. fraud
a deceitful person; impostor.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME fraude < OF < L fraud-, s. of fraus deceit, injury)
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| Definition of 'fraud' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) fraud
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
2. (noun) imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
3. (noun) fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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1. (noun) fraud
the crime of obtaining money dishonestly
He has been charged with fraud.; credit card fraud
2. fraud
sb who pretends to be sb they are not
The "expert" was later discovered to be a fraud.
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| Definition of 'fraud' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) fraud
deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick
2. (noun) fraud
an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another
3. (noun) fraud
a trap or snare
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| Definition of 'fraud' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. fraud
Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.
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Sense: (an act of) dishonesty
He was sent to prison for fraud.
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 Afrikaans: bedrog |
 Arabic: خِداع، إحْتيال، غِش |
 Bulgarian: измама |
 Brazilian: fraude |
 Czech: podvod |
 German: der Betrug |
 Danish: bedrageri |
 Greek: απάτη |
 Spanish: fraude |
 Estonian: pettus |
 Farsi: کلاهبرداری |
 Finnish: petos |
 French: fraude |
 Hebrew: הוֹנָאָה |
 Hindi: छल, कपट, धोखा |
 Croatian: prevara, varka |
 Hungarian: csalás |
 Indonesian: penipuan |
 Icelandic: (fjár)svik |
 Italian: frode |
 Japanese: 詐欺 |
 Korean: 사기 |
 Lithuanian: sukčiavimas |
 Latvian: krāpšana |
 Malay: penipuan |
 Dutch: fraude |
 Norwegian: svindel, bedrag(eri) |
 Polish: oszustwo |
 Persian: کلاهبرداری |
 Pashto: ټګى، چلبازى، كلپى، چل |
 Portuguese: fraude |
 Romanian: fraudă |
 Russian: мошенничество |
 Slovak: podvod |
 Slovenian: goljufija |
 Serbian: prevara |
 Swedish: bedrägeri |
 Thai: การต้มตุ๋น; การหลอกลวง |
 Turkish: sahtekârlık |
 Taiwanese: 欺騙 |
 Ukrainian: шахрайство |
 Urdu: چال بازی |
 Vietnamese: sự lừa đảo |
 Chinese: 欺骗 |
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