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English

Etymology

From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *d?rew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘abounding in, full of’”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f???.dj?.l(?)ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.d??.l?ns/
• Hyphenation: fraud?u?lence

Noun

fraudulence (countable and uncountable, plural fraudulences)

1. The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.

Synonyms

• fraudulency

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• fraud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)

1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. A person who performs any such trick.
5. (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)

1. (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

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau