fraud

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The crime of deceiving people to gain money or an unfair advantage.

   He was sent to prison for tax fraud.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who pretends to be something they are not in order to deceive others.

   The so-called doctor turned out to be a fraud.

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

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