fraud
See also: frauð
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /fɹɔːd/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) enPR: frôd, IPA(key): /fɹɔd/
- (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: frŏd, IPA(key): /fɹɑd/
- Rhymes: -ɔːd
NounEdit
fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
- 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 228744960, canto II:
- When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- 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.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- A person who performs any such trick.
- (obsolete) A trap or snare.
- 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
SynonymsEdit
- swindle
- scam
- (criminal) deceit
- trickery
- hoky-poky
- imposture
- (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
- grift
Related termsEdit
- defraud
- fraudulence
- fraudulent
- fraudulently
- fraudulentness
- insurance fraud
- mail fraud
- pious fraud
- wire fraud
TranslationsEdit
an act of deception
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assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end
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one who performs fraud
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VerbEdit
fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)
TranslationsEdit
defraud — see defraud