Usually means: Deception intentionally practiced for gain.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word fraud:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraud: Merriam-Webster
  2. fraud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fraud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fraud: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fraud: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fraud, fraud: Wordnik
  7. fraud: Wiktionary
  8. fraud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fraud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fraud: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fraud: Dictionary.com
  12. fraud: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. fraud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fraud (film), Fraud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fraud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fraud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fraud: Rhymezone
  18. fraud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fraud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Fraud: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. fraud: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fraud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fraud: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. fraud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. fraud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraud: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. fraud: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. fraud: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  6. fraud: Law.com Dictionary
  7. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. Fraud: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  11. FRAUD: Accounting Glossary
  12. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  13. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  15. fraud: Legal dictionary
  16. fraud: Financial dictionary
  17. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraud: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. fraud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Underwriter's Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. fraud: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. FRAUD: Acronym Finder
  4. Fraud: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fraud: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See frauding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
noun:  Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
noun:  The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
noun:  A person who performs any such trick.
noun:  (obsolete) A trap or snare.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To defraud.

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