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Definition of 'fraud' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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)

Definition of 'fraud' Princeton's WordNet 

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


Definition of 'fraud' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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.


Definition of 'fraud' Webster Dictionary 

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


Definition of 'fraud' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  fraud
Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.


Translation of 'fraud' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: bedrog Arabic flag Arabic: خِداع، إحْتيال، غِش Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: измама
Brazilian flag Brazilian: fraude Czech flag Czech: podvod German flag German: der Betrug
Danish flag Danish: bedrageri Greek flag Greek: απάτη Spanish flag Spanish: fraude
Estonian flag Estonian: pettus Farsi flag Farsi: کلاهبرداری Finnish flag Finnish: petos
French flag French: fraude Hebrew flag Hebrew: הוֹנָאָה Hindi flag Hindi: छल, कपट, धोखा
Croatian flag Croatian: prevara, varka Hungarian flag Hungarian: csalás Indonesian flag Indonesian: penipuan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (fjár)svik Italian flag Italian: frode Japanese flag Japanese: 詐欺
Korean flag Korean: 사기 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: sukčiavimas Latvian flag Latvian: krāpšana
Malay flag Malay: penipuan Dutch flag Dutch: fraude Norwegian flag Norwegian: svindel, bedrag(eri)
Polish flag Polish: oszustwo Persian flag Persian: کلاهبرداری Pashto flag Pashto: ټګى، چلبازى، كلپى، چل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: fraude Romanian flag Romanian: fraudă Russian flag Russian: мошенничество
Slovak flag Slovak: podvod Slovenian flag Slovenian: goljufija Serbian flag Serbian: prevara
Swedish flag Swedish: bedrägeri Thai flag Thai: การต้มตุ๋น; การหลอกลวง Turkish flag Turkish: sahtekârlık
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 欺騙 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: шахрайство Urdu flag Urdu: چال بازی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự lừa đảo Chinese flag Chinese: 欺骗

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