Definition for
fraud
– To cheat; defraud.
noun – An act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong or unfair advantage; deceit; trick; an artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured.
noun – Specifically, in law, an artifice employed by one person for the purpose of deceiving another, to the prejudice of his right; the causing or making use of the error of another for the attainment of an illegal object.
noun – A position artfully contrived to work damage or prejudice; a snare.
noun – A deceiver; a cheat; a pretender; also, a fraudulent production; something intended to deceive.
noun – A person who talks piously, but is not pious at heart; a religious humbug.
noun – 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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