~ sb (of sth) to get money illegally from a person or an organization by tricking them:
[VN] They were accused of defrauding the company of $14000. * [V] All three men were charged with conspiracy to defraud.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for defraud is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is defraud a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, defraud is tagged as verb.
Does defraud appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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