fraud

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /frɔːd/
• (US) IPA: /frɔd/
• (cot–caught merger, Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA: /frɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

fraud (plural frauds)

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

Synonyms

• (criminal) deceit
• trickery
• hoky-poky
• imposture
• (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster

Related terms

• defraud
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• fraudulently
• fraudulentness
• insurance fraud
• mail fraud
• pious fraud
• wire fraud

Translations

an act of deception

• Armenian: խաբեբայություն (hy) (xabebayut’yun), խարդախություն (hy) (xardaxut’yun), նենգություն (hy) (nengut’yun)
• Bulgarian: измама (bg) (izmáma) f, измами (bg) (izmámi) pl
• Catalan: frau (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騙局 (cmn), 骗局 (cmn) (piànjú), 詐騙 (cmn), 诈骗 (cmn) (zhàpiàn)

• Czech: podvod (cs) m
• Dutch: fraude (nl) c, flessentrekkerij (nl) f, bedrog (nl) n, oplichterij (nl) f, oplichting (nl) f
• Esperanto: fraudo (eo), trompo (eo)
• Finnish: petos (fi), vilppi (fi)
• German: Betrug (de) m
• Greek: απάτη (el) (apáti) f

• Hebrew: רמאות (he) (rama'üt) f
• Hungarian: csalás (hu), szélhámosság (hu)
• Ido: fraudo (io)
• Irish: calaois (ga) f

  Old Irish: éccubus m

• Italian: frode (it) m, frodi (it) pl
• Japanese: 詐欺 (ja) (さぎ, sagi)
• Norwegian: bedrageri n, svindel m
• Polish: oszustwo (pl) n
• Russian: мошенничество (ru) (mošénničestvo) n, жульничество (ru) (žúl'ničestvo) n, афера (ru) (aféra) f, шулерство (ru) (šúlerstvo) n
• Spanish: fraude (es) m
• Swahili: ghashi (sw), sakata (sw)
• Swedish: bedrägeri (sv) n

assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騙局 (cmn), 骗局 (cmn) (piànjú), 詐騙 (cmn), 诈骗 (cmn) (zhàpiàn)

• Finnish: petos (fi)
• Swahili: ghashi (sw), sakata (sw)
• Swedish: bedrägeri (sv) n, förfalskning (sv) c

one who performs fraud

• Armenian: խաբեբա (hy) (xabeba), խարդախ (hy) (xardax), սրիկա (hy) (srika)
• Dutch: fraudeur (nl) m, oplichter (nl) m, bedrieger (nl) n, charlatan (nl) m, vervalser (nl) m
• Finnish: huijari (fi)
• French: imposteur (fr) m
• German: Betrüger (de) m, Betrügerin (de) f

• Japanese: 詐欺師 (ja) (さぎし, sagishi)
• Polish: oszust (pl) m
• Russian: мошенник (ru) (mošénnik) m, жулик (ru) (žúlik) m, аферист (ru) (aferíst) m, шулер (ru) (šúler) m
• Swahili: ghashi (sw), sakata (sw)
• Swedish: bedragare (sv) c

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• French: fraude, fraudeur m, charlatan m

See also

• embezzlement
• false billing
• false advertising
• forgery
• identity theft
• predatory lending
• quackery
• usury
• white-collar crime

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To defraud

Translations

defraud — see defraud