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): /fɹɔːd/ (US) enPR: frôd, IPA(key): /fɹɔd/ (cot–caught merger) enPR: frŏd, IPA(key): /fɹɑd/ Rhymes: -ɔːd === Noun === fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds) (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. Synonyms: swindle, scam, deceit, grift Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain. Synonym: fiddle The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. A person who performs any such trick. Synonyms: faker, fraudster, imposter, trickster; see also Thesaurus:deceiver (obsolete) A trap or snare. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded) (transitive, obsolete) To defraud. ==== Translations ==== === See also === embezzlement false billing false advertising forgery identity theft predatory lending quackery usury white-collar crime == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== fraud f (pre-1938) alternative form of frau === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Old Norse frauðr. ==== Alternative forms ==== frau, fraug ==== Noun ==== fraud m (Solør dialect) synonym of frosk (“frog”) === References === “fraud” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring