fraud
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈfɹɔːd//
- United Kingdom/[ˈfɹʷɔːd]/
- Australia//ˈfɹoːd//
- Australia/[ˈfɹʷoːd]/
The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
noun
- 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.
When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
- 3
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- 4
A person who performs any such trick.
- 5
obsoleteA trap or snare.
to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo defraud.
Forms
- plural
- frauds
- past tense
- frauded
- past participle
- frauded
- present participle
- frauding
- third person singular
- frauds
fraud · The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
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