forgery
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ//
The act of forging metal into shape.
Substantiv
- 1
The act of forging metal into shape.
the forgery of horseshoes
- 2
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.
the forgery of a bond
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- 3
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- 4
altertümlichAn invention, creation.
Herkunft
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”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).
Formen
- Plural
- forgeries