fraud
English
/fɹɔːd/, /fɹɔd/, /fɹɑd/
noun
Definitions
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- A person who performs any such trick.
- (obsolete) A trap or snare.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fraude derived from Old French fraude (fraud, deception) derived from Latin fraus (deceit, fraud, cheating, injury, guile, offence).
Origin
Latin
fraus
Gloss
deceit, fraud, cheating, injury, guile, offence
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antifraud English
- befraud English
- biofraud English
- copy English
- copyfraud English
- counterfraud English
- cyberfraud English
- cyberfraudster English
- e-fraud English
- e-fraudster English
- fraudful English
- fraudfully English
- fraudfulness English
- fraudless English
- fraudmeister English
- fraudonomics English
- fraudproof English
- fraudsman English
- fraudster English
- man English
- nonfraud English
- telefraud English
- fraudiger Latin
- fraudulentus Latin
- fraus Latin
- fraus, fraudem Latin
- *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- fraude Middle English
- fraudful Middle English
- fraude Old French
- frau Catalan, Valencian
- fraude Middle Dutch
- fraude Norman
- fraude Middle French