Usually means: Impersonating someone, often fraudulently.
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  1. personating: Merriam-Webster
  2. personating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. personating: Vocabulary.com
  4. personating: Wordnik
  5. personating: Wiktionary
  6. Personating, personating: Dictionary.com
  7. Personating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Personating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. personating: FreeDictionary.org
  10. personating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. personating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. personating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personating: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (personating)

▸ noun:  An act of impersonation.

Similar:
impersonate, pose, personify, imposture, play-acting, impostor, masquerading, impostorship, impostury, imposter, more...

Opposite:
disavowal, denial, repudiation

Types:
cosplay, costume, disguise, impersonate, character, more...

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Similar:
impersonate, pose, personify, imposture, play-acting, impostor, masquerading, impostorship, impostury, imposter, more...

Opposite:
disavowal, denial, repudiation

Types:
cosplay, costume, disguise, impersonate, character, more...



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