fraud
/ˈfɹɔːd/
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Australia/ˈfɹoːd/
fraud noun: the crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
Noun
fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)
- 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 or unlawful gain.
- When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II
- 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.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
- Synonyms:
- fiddle
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- A person who performs any such trick.
- Synonyms:
- faker, fraudster, imposter, trickster, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger
- A trap or snare.
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
Verb
fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)
- To defraud.
fraud meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fraud in Hindi
- act of deception
- धोखा dhokhā, छल chal, झाँसा jhā̃sā
- one who performs fraud
- छलिया chaliyā
fraud in Tamil
- ஏமாற்றுதல், சூது, மோசடி, வஞ்சனை, வஞ்சகம், திருக்கல்
fraud in Marathi
- fraud
- धांदली dhāndalī
fraud in Urdu
- fraud
- دغا daġā, دم dam, دھاندلی dhāndlī
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- fraud in Bengali
- ভণ্ড bhonḍo, ধোঁকা dhō̃ka, ধোঁকাবাজ dhō̃kabaj
- fraud in Telugu
- కుయుక్తి kuyukti, దగా dagā
- fraud in Malayalam
- തട്ടിപ്പ് taṭṭippŭ, വഞ്ചന vañcana, കള്ളം kaḷḷaṁ, വഞ്ചകൻ vañcakaṉ
- fraud in Kannada
- ಮೋಸ, ಕಪಟ, ವಂಚನೆ, ಕುಟಿಲ ತಂತ್ರ
- fraud in Punjabi
- دھوکھا dhokhā, ਧੋਖਾ dhokhā
- fraud in Gujarati
- છેતરપિંડી chetarpiṇḍī
- fraud in Odia
- ଠକେଇ, ଜାଲିଆତି
- fraud in Sanskrit
- कपट kapaṭa
- fraud in Sinhala
- ධවජය dhawajaya
- fraud in Nepali
- ठगी, धोखाधडी, धोखाधड़ी
- fraud in Pashto
- چل čal
- fraud in Tagalog
- daya, pandaraya
- fraud in Arabic
- غِشّ ḡišš, اِحْتِيال iḥtiyāl, تَزْوِير tazwīr
- fraud in Indonesian
- penipuan, penipu
- fraud in Persian
- شیادی šayyâdi, کلاهبرداری kolâhbardâri, فریب farib, شیاد šayyâd
- fraud in Thai
- การฉ้อโกง gaan-chɔ̂ɔ-goong, การโกง, การทุจริต gaan-tút-jà-rìt
- fraud in Vietnamese
- sự gian lận, sự gian trá, sự lừa lọc
Examples of fraud in a sentence
- She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
- He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- One member of the check fraud team will zero in on the fingerprints.
Synonyms of fraud
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Forms of fraud
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | frauds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | frauds |
| present participle | frauding |
| past participle | frauded |
| past | frauded |
Origin of fraud
Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
Words formed from fraud
- 419 fraud
- advance fee fraud
- affinity fraud
- antifraud
- befraud
- biofraud
- carousel fraud
- category fraud
- click fraud
- constructive fraud
- copyfraud
- counterfraud
- cyberfraud
- defraud
- e-fraud
- electoral fraud
- familiar fraud
- food fraud
- fraudful
- fraudience
- frauditor
- fraudless
- fraudmeister
- fraudonomics
- fraudproof
- fraudsman
- fraud squad
- fraudulence
- fraudulent
- fraudulently
- fraudulentness
- friendly fraud
- insurance fraud
- mail fraud
- mandate fraud
- megafraud
- missing trader fraud
- nonfraud
- odometer fraud
- pious fraud
- prefraud
- return fraud
- romance fraud
- tax fraud
- telefraud
- vomit fraud
- wire fraud
Phrases with fraud
Words that rhyme with fraud
Questions about fraud
- What does fraud mean?
- Fraud means the crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- What is fraud in Hindi?
- Fraud in Hindi is धोखा (dhokhā), छल (chal), झाँसा (jhā̃sā). See Fraud meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fraud?
- Fraud can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fraud?
- Fraud is pronounced /ˈfɹɔːd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fraud?
- The plural of fraud is frauds.
Words near fraud in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fraud (page history and authors); fraud (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धांदली (Marathi) (page history and authors); دغا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ধোঁকা (Bengali) (page history and authors); కుయుక్తి (Telugu) (page history and authors); fraud (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دھوکھا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); છેતરપિંડી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); fraud (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ධවජය (Sinhala) (page history and authors); fraud (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); چل (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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