fraude — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deceit noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- fraud noun The crime of deceiving someone to gain money or an unfair advantage.
- grift noun A scheme for swindling people out of money, usually through trickery rather than force.
- hoax noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
- humbug noun Nonsense, deception, or something meant to trick or mislead people.
- racket noun A handled frame strung with cord, used to hit a ball or shuttlecock in sports like tennis or badminton.
- sham adjective Fake or intended to deceive; not genuine.
Senses
fraude is used for these senses in English:
- deceit An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- deceit (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- fraud Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- grift (transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game. [from early 20th c.]
- hoax Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
- humbug (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- racket An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- rip-off (countable) A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
deceit — full definition
- noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.
fraud — full definition
- noun The crime of deceiving someone to gain money or an unfair advantage.
- noun A person who pretends to be something they are not.