Thesaurus: fraud
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.
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Definitions
- n. 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.
- n. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
- n. A trap or snare.
- n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- n. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtainingsome valuable thing or promise from another.
- n:100 n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage