What does FRAUD mean?
Definitions for FRAUD
frɔdfraud
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word FRAUD.
Princeton's WordNet
fraudnoun
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-onnoun
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Wiktionary
fraudnoun
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
fraudnoun
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
fraudnoun
A person who performs any such trick.
fraudverb
To defraud
Etymology: Recorded since 1345, from fraude, from fraus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FRAUDnoun
Deceit; cheat; trick; artifice; subtility; stratagem.
Etymology: fraus, Latin; fraude, Fr.
None need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear. John Dryden, Æn.
If success a lover’s toil attends,
Who asks if force or fraud obtain’d his ends. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits, for example by obtaining a passport, travel document, or driver's license, or mortgage fraud, where the perpetrator may attempt to qualify for a mortgage by way of false statements.A hoax is a distinct concept that involves deliberate deception without the intention of gain or of materially damaging or depriving a victim.
ChatGPT
fraud
Fraud refers to the dishonest and deceptive practices carried out by an individual or an organization with the intention of illegally obtaining money, assets, services, or personal information from others. It typically involves misrepresentation, concealment, or manipulation of facts or information for personal gain, usually leading to financial or non-financial harm to the victims. Fraud can take various forms, such as identity theft, insurance fraud, credit card fraud, pyramid schemes, falsifying financial statements, or manipulating transactions.
Webster Dictionary
Fraudnoun
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
Fraudnoun
an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another
Fraudnoun
a trap or snare
Wikidata
Fraud
In criminal law, fraud is intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent, and verb is defraud. Fraud is a crime and a civil law violation, though the specific criminal law definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud. A hoax also involves deception, but without the intention of gain or of damaging or depriving the victim. Fraud is a defense in a civil action for breach of contract or specific performance of a contract. Fraud is a basis for equitable jurisdiction.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fraud
frawd, n. deceit: imposture: (Milt.) a snare: a deceptive trick: (coll.) a cheat: a fraudulent production.—adj. Fraud′ful, deceptive.—adv. Fraud′fully.—ns. Fraud′ulence, Fraud′ulency.—adj. Fraud′ulent, using fraud: dishonest.—adv. Fraud′ulently.—Fraudulent bankruptcy, a bankruptcy in which the insolvent is accessory, by concealment or otherwise, to the diminution of the funds divisible among his creditors.—Pious fraud, a deception practised with a good end in view: (coll.) a religious humbug. [O. Fr.,—L. fraus, fraudis, fraud.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Fraud
Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
fraud
See Appendix, Articles of War, 60.
Mythology
Fraud
one of the evil deities, was represented as a goddess with a human face and a serpent’s body, and at the end of her tail was a scorpion’s sting. She lived in the river Cocytus, and nothing but her head was ever seen.
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'FRAUD' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4568
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'FRAUD' in Nouns Frequency: #1927
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of FRAUD in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of FRAUD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of FRAUD in a Sentence
District Judge Lorna Schofield:
This is a fraud case, this is about what Donald Trump said.
If David Cameron still wants to be taken seriously personally and politically in the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion, Britain needs to close the loopholes in its own country immediately.
There's no widespread voter fraud. And so for them to mislead all of Texas into believing that there's an issue -- we're going to call them out for that, we may have won the war tonight, but the battle is not over.
There was a level of fraud on a national scale that people were not privy to that could happen again tomorrow, i think it's a cautionary tale and I hope it starts conversations about how to change things and to avoid it happening again because it could be far worse next time.
British Airways ' responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers' data, we have found no evidence of fraud/fraudulent activity on accounts linked to the theft.
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Translations for FRAUD
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- تزويرArabic
- измами, измамник, измама, мошеникBulgarian
- frauCatalan, Valencian
- podvodCzech
- Betrug, Betrügerin, BetrügerGerman
- απάτη, απατεώναςGreek
- fraudo, trompoEsperanto
- fraudeSpanish
- کلاهبردار, فریب, کلاهبرداری, آپارتی, شیادی, شیادPersian
- vilppi, huijari, petosFinnish
- svikFaroese
- imposteur, charlatan, fraudeFrench
- calaoisIrish
- רמאותHebrew
- csalás, szélhámosságHungarian
- խարդախ, խաբեբայություն, սրիկա, նենգություն, խարդախություն, խաբեբաArmenian
- fraudoIdo
- baratteria, frodi, frodeItalian
- 詐欺, 詐欺師Japanese
- თაღლითობაGeorgian
- hara tāwareMāori
- bedrog, oplichterij, vervalser, fraudeur, oplichting, bedrieger, charlatan, oplichter, fraude, flessentrekkerijDutch
- svindel, bedrageriNorwegian
- wyłudzenie, oszust, oszustwoPolish
- logro, fraudador, falcatrua, falsidade ideológica, fraudePortuguese
- мошенник, мошенничество, афера, шулерство, аферист, шулер, жульничество, жуликRussian
- bedragare, förfalskning, bedrägeriSwedish
- ghashi, sakataSwahili
- dolandırıcılıkTurkish
- 欺诈罪Chinese
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