Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take something from by fraud; swindle: defrauded the immigrants by selling them worthless land deeds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deprive of right, either by procuring something by deception or artifice, or by appropriating something wrongfully through breach of trust, or by withholding from another by indirection or device that which he has a right to claim or obtain; cheat; cozen: followed by of before the thing taken.
- To defeat or frustrate wrongfully.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; ; -- with
of before the thing taken or withheld.
WordNet 3.0
- v. deprive of by deceit
Etymologies
- Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from Latin dēfraudāre : dē-, de- + fraudāre, to cheat (from fraus, fraud-, fraud). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When used in such a manner the term defraud has a legal rather than a dictionary meaning, and the legal interpretation of fraud or defraud is applied to those acts which seek to obtain that which has monetary value and to do so in an manner deamed illegal.”
“Madigan viewpoint: As the Court noted, speech in furtherance of a scheme to defraud is not speech protected by the First Amendment.”
“Also, since Sauron’s intent was to defraud from the outset, can he gain/profit from his illegal activities?”
“Mark's quotation of the Decalogue is unusual inasmuch as it refers to a commandment not to defraud, which is interesting.”
Review of Deuteronomy in the New Testament, edited by Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken
“Thou shalt not defraud, that is, deceive or beguile.”
“The charge I felt they had proven was scheme to defraud, which is a first-degree felony punishable by 30 years in prison," he said, "which is the same statutory punishment ... as the racketeering charge.”
“Christopher Torres, of the 1900 block of 41st Terrace Southwest, Golden Gate, was charged with possession of an admission ticket with intent to defraud, which is a misdemeanor.”
“Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking away) and defraud" (by retaining what is entrusted to you; or "defraud" marks the effect of the "wrong" done, namely, the loss inflicted).”
“Seldom Blues owner Frank Taylor closed the Detroit Fish Market and Detroit's Breakfast House & Grill last April, a day after the Downtown Development Authority sued him on claims he tried to "defraud" the city and owed $180,000 in back rent.”
“Breakfast House & Grill in April, moves triggered by a lawsuit from the city of Detroit alleging he tried to "defraud" the government and owed $180,000 in unpaid rent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘defraud’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Pass the Xanex
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termagancy, foreslow, violent, defraud, conteck, annihilatory, negation, imprecate, malfeasance, agog, insurge, orthodox and 12 more...
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sleight of hand
scam, bamboozle, flim-flam, swindle, defraud, hoax, peculate, direption, steal, asbscond, cabbage, pinch and 30 more...
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