Usually means: Deceiving others to gain advantage.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. false pretenses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. false pretenses: Vocabulary.com
  3. false pretenses: Wordnik
  4. false pretenses: Wiktionary
  5. false pretenses: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. false pretenses: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. false pretenses: Dictionary.com
  8. False Pretenses, False pretenses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. false pretenses: FreeDictionary.org
  10. False pretenses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. false pretenses: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. false pretenses: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. false pretenses: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

(Note: See false_pretense as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (False Pretenses)

noun:  In criminal law, property is obtained by false pretenses when the acquisition results from the intentional misrepresentation of a past or existing fact.
noun:  a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Irene Ware.

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