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mail frauds

mail frauds is the plural of mail fraud.

Meaning of mail fraud

Noun

mail fraud (countable and uncountable, plural mail frauds)

  1. (US, criminal law) A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use of the postal system of the United States of America.
    • The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.1991, D. M. Maus, “License Procurement and the Federal Mail Fraud Statute”, in The University of Chicago Law Review, volume 58, number 3, page 1126

Questions about mail frauds

What is mail frauds the plural of?
Mail frauds is the plural of mail fraud.

Words near mail frauds in the dictionary

  1. mail codes
  2. mail cover
  3. mail drop
  4. mail flag
  5. mail fraud
  6. mail frauds
  7. mail it in
  8. mail ladies
  9. mail lady
  10. mail merge
  11. mail merged

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