Fraud

Noun

 * 1) Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
 * 2) The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end
 * 3) One who performs any such trick.

Verb

 * 1)  To defraud

Adjectives for Fraud
unremitting; shameful; presumable; wretched; economic; mercenary; pious; gigantic; petty; manifest; glaring; meditated; flagrant; barefaced.

Verbs for Fraud
beguile with—; commit—; cover—; declaim against—; design—; detect—; discern—; draw into—; engage in—; execute—; impose—upon; indulge in—; glory in—; la¬ment—; perceive—; perpetrate—; practise—; prevent—; punish—; rectify—; reveal —; suspect—; taint with—; uncover—; unearth—; —amuses; —deceives; —dejects; —enables; —provokes; —ruins; —succeeds.

Synonyms for Fraud

 * (criminal) deceit
 * (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
 * trickery, hoky-poky, imposture, deception, guile, duplicity, chicanery, artifice, circumvention, forgery, hoax, swindle, dishonesty, treachery, cheating.

Antonyms for Fraud
truth, integrity, honesty, good faith, justice, fairness, authenticity, sincerity, probity, frankness, equity, rectitude, right, conscientiousness.

Related terms

 * defraud
 * fraudulence
 * fraudulent
 * fraudulently
 * fraudulentness
 * insurance fraud
 * mail fraud
 * pious fraud
 * wire fraud

Thesaurus
con artist, con man, confidence man, conversion, conveyance, counterfeit, cozenage, craft, craftiness, credibility gap, deceit, deceitfulness, deceiver, deception, defrauder, delusion, diddle, diddling, disguise, dishonesty, disingenuousness, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dodge, double-dealing, dummy, dupery, duping, duplicity, embezzlement, facade, face, fake, fakement, faker, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falseheartedness, falsity, feigning, feint, filching, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, flimflammer, forgery, forswearing, four-flushing, fourflusher, frame-up, fraudulence, fraudulency, front, gerrymandering, gilt, gloss, graft, grift, guile, gyp, gyp joint, hanky-panky, hoax, hollow man, hoodwinking, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imitation, impersonator, imposition, impostor, imposture, insincerity, intrigue, inveigler, junk, knave, liberation, lifting, malingerer, man of straw, mannerist, masquerade, meretriciousness, mock, monkey business, mountebank, ostentation, outward show, paper tiger, paste, performer, perjury, phony, pilferage, pilfering, pinchbeck, pinching, playacting, playactor, poaching, pose, poser, poseur, posing, posture, pretender, pretense, pretension, pretext, put-on, put-up job, quack, quacksalver, quackster, racket, representation, ringer, rip-off, rogue, ruse, saltimbanco, scam, scoundrel, scrounging, seeming, sell, semblance, sham, shammer, shark, sharp practice, sharper, shoddy, shoplifting, show, simulacrum, simulation, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, speciousness, stealage, stealing, stratagem, straw man, subterfuge, swindle, swindler, swindling, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tinsel, treachery, trick, trickery, trickster, uncandidness, uncandor, unfrankness, unsincereness, untruthfulness, varnish, whited sepulcher, wile, window dressing, abstraction, acting, actor, affectation, affecter, annexation, appearance, appropriation, artfulness, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot-box stuffing, bamboozlement, barracuda, bilk, bilker, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, bluffing, boosting, bunco, cardsharping, charlatan, cheat, cheater, cheating, chicane, chicanery, clinquant, color, coloring,

Pronunciation




Etymology
Recorded since 1345, from fraude, from  fraus 'deceit, injury'

Noun

 * Armenian:, խարդախություն,  նենգություն
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, fraudeur , bedrieger , bedrog , oplichterij , oplichting , charlatan , vervalser
 * Esperanto:, trompo
 * Finnish:, vilppi
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:, szélhámosság
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: bedrageri, svindel
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, жульничество,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,


 * Finnish: petos


 * Swahili: ,


 * Armenian: խաբեբա, խարդախ,  սրիկա
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: huijari
 * German: ,


 * Polish:
 * Russian:, , аферист
 * Swahili: ,