/fɹɔːd/, /fɹɔd/, /fɹɑd/
OriginFrom Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
- countable, uncountableThe crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- countable, uncountableAny act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
“When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.”
“But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive ups”
- countable, uncountableThe assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- countable, uncountableA person who performs any such trick.
- countable, obsolete, uncountableA trap or snare.
“to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud”
- obsolete, transitiveTo defraud.
Formsfrauds(plural) · frauds(present, singular, third-person) · frauding(participle, present) · frauded(participle, past) · frauded(past)