What does fraud mean?
Definitions for fraud
frɔdfraud
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Princeton's WordNet
fraudnoun
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-onnoun
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Wiktionary
fraudnoun
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
fraudnoun
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
fraudnoun
A person who performs any such trick.
fraudverb
To defraud
Etymology: Recorded since 1345, from fraude, from fraus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FRAUDnoun
Deceit; cheat; trick; artifice; subtility; stratagem.
Etymology: fraus, Latin; fraude, Fr.
None need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear. John Dryden, Æn.
If success a lover’s toil attends,
Who asks if force or fraud obtain’d his ends. Alexander Pope.
Webster Dictionary
Fraudnoun
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
Fraudnoun
an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another
Fraudnoun
a trap or snare
Freebase
Fraud
In criminal law, fraud is intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent, and verb is defraud. Fraud is a crime and a civil law violation, though the specific criminal law definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud. A hoax also involves deception, but without the intention of gain or of damaging or depriving the victim. Fraud is a defense in a civil action for breach of contract or specific performance of a contract. Fraud is a basis for equitable jurisdiction.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fraud
frawd, n. deceit: imposture: (Milt.) a snare: a deceptive trick: (coll.) a cheat: a fraudulent production.—adj. Fraud′ful, deceptive.—adv. Fraud′fully.—ns. Fraud′ulence, Fraud′ulency.—adj. Fraud′ulent, using fraud: dishonest.—adv. Fraud′ulently.—Fraudulent bankruptcy, a bankruptcy in which the insolvent is accessory, by concealment or otherwise, to the diminution of the funds divisible among his creditors.—Pious fraud, a deception practised with a good end in view: (coll.) a religious humbug. [O. Fr.,—L. fraus, fraudis, fraud.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Fraud
Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
fraud
See Appendix, Articles of War, 60.
Mythology
Fraud
one of the evil deities, was represented as a goddess with a human face and a serpent’s body, and at the end of her tail was a scorpion’s sting. She lived in the river Cocytus, and nothing but her head was ever seen.
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fraud' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4568
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fraud' in Nouns Frequency: #1927
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fraud in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fraud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of fraud in a Sentence
The absentee ballot fraud that occurred in the 9th Congressional District effectively disenfranchised voters in that district, north Carolina voters should be confident that state officials will continue to be vigilant and pursue any individuals or organizations that attempt to undermine our elections. Democracy is best served by holding those who attempt to thwart North Carolina accountable.
Do I think there's a difference between getting a city budget passed in South Bend -- smaller than the city of Manchester ? Or getting three Republicans to vote for a $ 900 billion recovery act, that saved us and generated less than 1 % waste for fraud ? Yeah, I do.
While this is encouraging news, Gov. Martinez still sides with an overwhelming majority of New Mexicans who believe we must repeal the dangerous law of giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, which has turned our state into a magnet for criminal activity, these people enter the country illegally then obtain a driver’s license through fraud and lies.
Fraud's better than drugs on the street.
The more resources we have to attack the bad people, the bad actors who are committing fraud, the better for the state of Florida, the more the merrier.
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- تزويرArabic
- измами, измамник, измама, мошеникBulgarian
- frauCatalan, Valencian
- podvodCzech
- Betrug, Betrügerin, BetrügerGerman
- απάτη, απατεώναςGreek
- fraudo, trompoEsperanto
- fraudeSpanish
- کلاهبردار, فریب, کلاهبرداری, آپارتی, شیادی, شیادPersian
- vilppi, huijari, petosFinnish
- svikFaroese
- imposteur, charlatan, fraudeFrench
- calaoisIrish
- רמאותHebrew
- csalás, szélhámosságHungarian
- խարդախ, խաբեբայություն, սրիկա, նենգություն, խարդախություն, խաբեբաArmenian
- fraudoIdo
- baratteria, frodi, frodeItalian
- 詐欺, 詐欺師Japanese
- თაღლითობაGeorgian
- hara tāwareMāori
- bedrog, oplichterij, vervalser, fraudeur, oplichting, bedrieger, charlatan, oplichter, fraude, flessentrekkerijDutch
- svindel, bedrageriNorwegian
- wyłudzenie, oszust, oszustwoPolish
- logro, fraudador, falcatrua, falsidade ideológica, fraudePortuguese
- мошенник, мошенничество, афера, шулерство, аферист, шулер, жульничество, жуликRussian
- bedragare, förfalskning, bedrägeriSwedish
- ghashi, sakataSwahili
- dolandırıcılıkTurkish
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