fraud

  • 11fraud — [n1] trickery, deception artifice, bamboozlement*, blackmail, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double dealing*, dupery, duping, duplicity, extortion, fake, fast one*, fast shuffle*, flimflam*, fourberie, fraudulence, graft, guile,… …

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  • 12Fraud — fraud, frot nm terre inculte Oise. Syn.: waste …

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  • 13fraud — (izg. frȏd) m DEFINICIJA riječi ili radnja kojom se drugi namjerno dovodi u zabludu; prijevara, obmana, podvala, pronevjera ETIMOLOGIJA engl …

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  • 14fraud — n 1 *deception, trickery, chicanery, chicane, double dealing Analogous words: duplicity, *deceit, guile, dissimulation: defrauding, swindling, cheating, cozening, overreaching (see CHEAT vb) 2 *imposture, cheat, sham, fake, humbug, deceit,… …

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  • 15fraud — ► NOUN 1) wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. 2) a person intending or thing intended to deceive. DERIVATIVES fraudster noun. ORIGIN Old French fraude, from Latin fraus deceit, injury …

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  • 16fraud — [frôd] n. [ME fraude < OFr < L fraus (gen. fraudis) < IE base * dhwer , to trick > Sans dhvárati, (he) injures] 1. a) deceit; trickery; cheating b) Law intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right 2 …

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  • 17Fraud — Criminal law Part of …

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  • 18fraud — An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct …

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  • 19fraud — An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct …

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  • 20fraud — fraudful, adj. fraudfully, adv. /frawd/, n. 1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. 2. a particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud;… …

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