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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

  1. noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  2. noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.

fraud — full definition

  1. noun The crime of deceiving someone to gain money or an unfair advantage.
  2. noun A person who pretends to be something they are not.

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