fraudulence

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fraud·u·lent

(frô′jə-lənt)

adj.

1. Engaging in fraud; deceitful.

2. Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud: fraudulent business practices.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus, fraud-, deceit.]

fraud′u·lence n.

fraud′u·lent·ly adv.

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Noun	1.	fraudulence - a fraudulent or duplicitous representation duplicity deception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood
	2.	fraudulence - the quality of being fraudulent deceit dishonesty - the quality of being dishonest
	3.	fraudulence - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile, chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

Translations

احْتيال،خِداع، غِش، تَزْوير

faleš

bedragerisvindel

Betrügerei

sviksemi

dolo fraudolenza

sahtekârlık

欺骗性

fraudulence

[ˈfrɔːdjʊləns] N → fraudulencia f, fraude m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fraudulence

, fraudulency

n → Betrügerei f; (of action) → betrügerische Art

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fraudulence

[ˈfrɔːdjʊl/əns] n → fraudolenza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fraud

(froːd) noun

1. (an act of) dishonesty. He was sent to prison for fraud.

2. a person who pretends to be something that he isn't. That man is not a famous writer, he's a fraud.

ˈfraudulent (-djulənt) , ((American) -dʒulənt) adjective

dishonest or intending to deceive. fraudulent behaviour.

ˈfraudulently adverb

ˈfraudulence noun

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