We found 35 dictionaries that define the word
pretext:
General (27 matching dictionaries)
- pretext: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- pretext: Merriam-Webster
- pretext: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- pretext: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- pretext: Collins English Dictionary
- pretext: Vocabulary.com
- Pretext, pretext: Wordnik
- pretext: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- pretext: Wiktionary
- pretext: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- pretext: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- pretext: Infoplease Dictionary
- Pretext, pretext: Dictionary.com
- pretext: Online Etymology Dictionary
- pretext: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Pretext: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Pretext: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- pretext: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- pretext: Rhymezone
- pretext: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- pretext: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- pretext: FreeDictionary.org
- pretext: Mnemonic Dictionary
- pretext: TheFreeDictionary.com
- Pretext: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
Business (5 matching dictionaries)
- THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
- Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
- pretext: Legal dictionary
- Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
- BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- pretext: Encyclopedia
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- pretext: Urban Dictionary
(Note: See
pretexting as well.)
▸ noun: A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
▸ verb: To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
pretence,
guise,
stalking-horse,
pretense,
prætence,
pretextuality,
pretexture,
pretention,
pretender,
presupposition,
more...
slightest,
merest,
plausible,
convenient,
flimsiest,
specious,
good,
false,
sufficient,
decent,
frivolous
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