different between quackery vs fraud
quackery
English
Etymology
quack +? -ery
Noun
quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)
- (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Quotations
- 1772: Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register
- His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]
Related terms
- quack
Translations
See also
- fraud
- snake oil
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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- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau
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- what are the types of frauds
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