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Webster 1913 Edition
Fraud
Fraud
(fra̤d)
, Noun.
[F.
fraude
, L. fraus
, fraudis
; prob. akin to Skr. dhūrv
to injure, dhvṛ
to cause to fall, and E. dull
.] 1.
Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
If success a lover’s toil attends,
Few ask, if
Few ask, if
fraud
or force attained his ends. Pope.
2.
(Law)
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
3.
A trap or snare.
[Obs.]
To draw the proud King Ahab into
fraud
. Milton.
Syn. – Deception; deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife; circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See
– Deception
. Fraud′ful-ly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fraud
FRAUD
,Noun.
Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.
If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.
Definition 2024
fraud
fraud
See also: frauð
English
Noun
fraud (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.
- Alexander Pope
- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- 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.
- Alexander Pope
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- A person who performs any such trick.
- (obsolete) A trap or snare.
- Milton
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
- Milton
Synonyms
- swindle
- scam
- (criminal) deceit
- trickery
- hoky-poky
- imposture
- (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
Related terms
- defraud
- fraudulence
- fraudulent
- fraudulently
- fraudulentness
- insurance fraud
- mail fraud
- pious fraud
- wire fraud
Translations
an act of deception
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assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end
one who performs fraud
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See also
- embezzlement
- false billing
- false advertising
- forgery
- identity theft
- predatory lending
- quackery
- usury
- white-collar crime
Verb
fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)
- (obsolete) To defraud
Translations
defraud — see defraud