Meanings
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noun
a person who obtains money or property from others through deception or fraud
The swindler persuaded dozens of investors to pay for shares in a nonexistent company.
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Etymology
Borrowed in the late eighteenth century from German Schwindler ("cheat, impostor"), from schwindeln, which developed from "be dizzy" to "act deceitfully, cheat." Swindle was then formed in English from the borrowed noun.