Usually means: Deception intentionally practiced for gain.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word fraud:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraud: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  22. fraud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fraud: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. fraud: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fraud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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

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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.

Similar:
faker, put-on, impostor, dupery, sham, pretender, hoax, imposter, pseud, fraudulence, more...

Opposite:
honesty, integrity, authenticity, legitimacy, truthfulness

Types:
identity theft, insider trading, ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, health care fraud, more...

Phrases:
Securities fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, electoral fraud, Computer fraud, more...

Adjectives:
pious, electoral, such, actual, financial, outright, deliberate, massive, old, constructive, gross

Colors:
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Similar:
faker, put-on, impostor, dupery, sham, pretender, hoax, imposter, pseud, fraudulence, more...

Opposite:
honesty, integrity, authenticity, legitimacy, truthfulness

Types:
identity theft, insider trading, ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, health care fraud, more...

Phrases:
Securities fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, electoral fraud, Computer fraud, consumer fraud, wire fraud, insurance fraud, election fraud, actual fraud, Bank fraud, fraud detection, constructive fraud, pious fraud, more...

Adjectives:
pious, electoral, such, actual, financial, outright, deliberate, massive, old, constructive, gross

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     burgundy,     charcoal,     maroon,     midnight blue,     forest green,     rust



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