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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- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau
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finesse
English
Etymology
From Middle English f?nesse (“degree of excellence; (of metal) fineness, purity”), from Middle French finesse, Old French finesse (“fineness; delicacy; slenderness”), from fine, fin (“fine, thin”) (from Latin f?nis (“end”); compare Middle English f?n (“of superior quality; precious, valuable; admirable, pleasing; pure, refined; fineness, purity; delicate, exquisite, fine; sharp, thin”)) + -esse (suffix forming nouns describing the condition of being something).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- Hyphenation: fin?esse
Noun
finesse (countable and uncountable, plural finesses)
- (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520]
- Synonym: finessing
- (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable) An adroit manoeuvre. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. [from early 18th c.]
Translations
Verb
finesse (third-person singular simple present finesses, present participle finessing, simple past and past participle finessed)
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- Almost miraculously, [risk-neutral valuation] finesses the problem that we know hardly anything about the risk aversion of the buyers and sellers of options.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse. [from mid 18th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. [from mid 18th c.]
- Synonym: (slang) zhoosh
- (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing. [from mid 18th c.]
- (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- finesse (card games) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- finesse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From fin +? -esse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.n?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
finesse f (plural finesses)
- fineness (of hair, writing etc.)
- thinness
- keenness, sharpness (of blade)
- fineness, delicacy; slenderness
- perceptiveness; sensitivity, finesse
Further reading
- “finesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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