1 [U] the crime of copying money, documents, etc. in order to deceive people
2 [C] something, for example a document, piece of paper money, etc., that has been copied in order to deceive people:
Experts are dismissing claims that the painting is a forgery.
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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 forgery is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is forgery a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, forgery is tagged as noun.
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