different between barratry vs fraud
barratry
English
Etymology
Early 15th century, in sense “sale of offices”, from Old French baraterie (“deceit, trickery”), from barat (“fraud, deceit, trickery”), of unknown origin, perhaps Celtic. In marine sense of “unlawful acts causing loss to owner”, 1620s..
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæ??t?i/
Noun
barratry (countable and uncountable, plural barratries)
- The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
- The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
- Coordinate term: simony
- (admiralty law) Unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.
Related terms
See also
- champerty
References
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fraud
English
Etymology
From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???d/
- (US) enPR: frôd, IPA(key): /f??d/
- (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: fr?d, IPA(key): /f??d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Noun
fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- A person who performs any such trick.
- (obsolete) A trap or snare.
Synonyms
- swindle
- scam
- (criminal) deceit
- trickery
- hoky-poky
- imposture
- (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
- grift
Related terms
- defraud
- fraudulence
- fraudulent
- fraudulently
- fraudulentness
- insurance fraud
- mail fraud
- pious fraud
- wire fraud
Translations
Verb
fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)
- (obsolete) To defraud
Translations
See also
- embezzlement
- false billing
- false advertising
- forgery
- identity theft
- predatory lending
- quackery
- usury
- white-collar crime
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
fraud f
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau
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