fraud

fraud  (frôd)

n.

1. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.

2. A piece of trickery; a trick.

3.

a. One that defrauds; a cheat.

b. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.

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[Middle English fraude, from Old French, from Latin fraus, fraud-.]

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fraud

Noun

1. deliberate deception or cheating intended to gain an advantage

2. an act of such deception

3. Informal a person who acts in a false or deceitful way [Latin fraus]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" barratry - (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo identity theft - the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge mail fraud - use of the mails to defraud someone election fraud - misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election constructive fraud, legal fraud - comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence collateral fraud, extrinsic fraud - fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial fraud in fact, positive fraud - actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another fraud in the factum - fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract fraud in the inducement - fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts intrinsic fraud - fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
	2.	fraud - a person who makes deceitful pretenses faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, pretender, fake beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true name dropper - someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends ringer - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
	3.	fraud - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraudulence chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile, chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

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fraud

noun 1. deception, deceit, treachery, swindling, guile, trickery, duplicity, double-dealing, chicanery, sharp practice, imposture, fraudulence, spuriousness << OPPOSITE honesty

noun 2. scam, craft, cheat, sting (informal) deception (slang) artifice, humbug, canard, stratagems, chicane

noun 3. hoax, trick, cheat, con (informal) deception, sham, spoof (informal) prank, swindle, ruse, practical joke, joke, fast one (informal) imposture, fastie Austral. (slang)

noun 4. (Informal) impostor, cheat, fake, bluffer, sham, hoax, hoaxer, forgery, counterfeit, pretender, charlatan, quack, fraudster, swindler, mountebank, grifter (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. double-dealer, phoney or phony (informal)

Translations

fraud [frɔːd] n → fraude m (= person); impostor/a m/f

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fraud [frɔːd] n → supercherie f, fraude f, tromperie f (= person); imposteur m

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fraud [frɔːd] n → Betrug m;

(person) → Betrüger(in) m(f)

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fraud [frɔːd] n → truffa;

(LAW) → frode f;

(person) → impostore/a