forgery

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of forging metal into shape.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, uncountable) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
4. (archaic, countable, uncountable) An invention, creation.

Sinonieme

counterfeit

falsification

fabrication

imitation

fake

sham

counterfeiting

falsehood

fraud

hoax

counterfeits

spurious article

forge

forged document

flam

hoaxing

imposition

invention

pretence

simulation

spuriousness

trick

apocryphal work

spurious letter

apocryphal book

spurious book

identity fraud

stumer

blag

forged/faked document

adulteration

faked document

alteration

copy

counterfeit money

debasement

deceit

defacement

deke

excogitation

fakery

false

falseness

fictitious

fictitiousness

Vertalings

Fälschung

falsificación

falsificazione

contrefaçon

falsification

contraffazione

faux

falsificação

πλαστογραφία

namaak

vervalsing

subjectio

falso

Fälschen

imitation

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/

Etimologie (Engels)

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”).

Sinne

The directors were accused of bribe , tax fraud and forgery .