fraud

Meaning

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

charlatan

defraudation

unscrupulousness

dipsy-doodle

fraud in fact

shady deal

con-man

forged/faked document

delinquent behaviour

deciet

hypocrisv

clip artist

false pretence

positive fraud

sharpy

underhand action

jiggery pokery

confidence trickery

criminal act

mischievousness

speculation

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹɔːd/

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

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