fraudnoun
uk/frɔːd/us/frɑːd/fraud noun (CRIME)
C2 [ C or U ] the crime of getting money by deceiving people:
credit card fraud
He is fighting extradition to Hong Kong to face trial on fraud charges.
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- She is suspected of complicity in the fraud.
- This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people.
- They spent ten years in jail for fraud.
- The fraud depended on hundreds of bank accounts being opened on behalf of straw men.
- His accountant had aided and abetted him in the fraud.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- launder
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
- swindle
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fraud noun (FALSE)
C2 [ C ] someone who deceives people by saying that they are someone or something that they are not:
She was a psychic who was later revealed to be a fraud.
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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