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wire frauds

wire frauds is the plural of wire fraud.

Meaning of wire fraud

Noun

wire fraud (countable and uncountable, plural wire frauds)

  1. (US, criminal law) A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.
    • 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 wire frauds

What is wire frauds the plural of?
Wire frauds is the plural of wire fraud.

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