fraud

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Recorded since 1345, from Old French fraude, from Latin fraus (deceit, injury, offence).

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fraud (plural frauds)

  1. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
  2. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
  3. A person who performs any such trick.

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fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)

  1. (obsolete) To defraud

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