fraud

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
3. (countable, uncountable) The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. (countable, uncountable) A person who performs any such trick.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A trap or snare.

Verb

To defraud.

Sinonieme

deceit

deception

trick

cheating

cheat

swindle

trickery

swindler

sham

guile

impostor

trickster

deceiver

fake

imposter

pretender

imposture

dishonesty

humbug

swindling

canard

decoy

charlatan

counterfeit

imposition

treachery

hoax

embezzlement

cheater

con man

lie

scam

fraudulence

faker

shark

🦈

phony

shammer

hypocrite

knave

liar

betrayal

con

gyp

forgery

hypocrisy

falsehood

roguery

dupery

pretence

crook

Vertalings

Betrug

fraude

frode

fraude

escroquerie

Schwindel

hile

απάτη

truffa

imbroglio

fraude

Betrüger

bedrog

tromperie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɹɔːd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: fraude

In summary

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

Sinne

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