fraudster

English

Etymology

Derived from fraud +‎ -ster.

Noun

fraudster (plural fraudsters)

1. a person who practices fraud; a swindler
   • 2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail

     With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.

Related terms

• deadbeat

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:fraudster

Translations

a person who practices fraud

• Esperanto: fraŭdisto
• Finnish: huijari (fi)
• French: fraudeur (fr) m
• Greek: απατεώνας (el) m (apateónas), κομπιναδόρος (el) m (kompinadóros)
• Hungarian: csaló (hu), szélhámos (hu)
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• Ido: fraudanto (io), fraudero (io)
• Indonesian: penipu (id)
• Korean: 사기꾼 (ko) (sagikkun)
• Occitan: fraudaire m
• Swedish: bedragare (sv) c