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Definitions for Fraud

[1] deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
[2] a particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud; election frauds.
[3] any deception, trickery, or humbug: That diet book is a fraud and a waste of time.
[4] a person who makes deceitful pretenses; sham; poseur.
[5] deliberate deception, trickery, or cheating intended to gain an advantage
[6] an act or instance of such deception
[7] something false or spurious his explanation was a fraud
[8] informal a person who acts in a false or deceitful way

Words related to Fraud

scam, blackmail, hoax, deceit, misrepresentation, extortion, graft, duplicity, cheat, fake, sting, shakedown, artifice, racket, sell, imposture, double-dealing, string, song, chicanery

Words nearby Fraud

fraternity house, fraternize, fratricide, fratry, frau, fraud, fraud squad, fraudster, fraudulent, frauenfeld, fraughan

Origin of Fraud

1300–50; Middle English fraude < Old French < Medieval Latin fraud- (stem of fraus ) deceit, injury

Other words from Fraud

fraud·ful , adjective
fraud·ful·ly , adverb
an·ti·fraud , adjective
pre·fraud , noun

Word origin for Fraud

C14: from Old French fraude , from Latin fraus deception

Synonyms for Fraud

blackmail, deceit, extortion, graft, hoax, misrepresentation, scam, artifice, barratry, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fake, flimflam, fraudulence, guile, hocus-pocus, hustle, imposture, line, racket, sell, shakedown, sham, skunk, smoke, song, spuriousness, sting, string, swindle, treachery, bamboozlement, duping, fast one, fast shuffle, fourberie, hanky-panky, hoodwinking, sharp practice, song and dance, swindling