1 [U,C] the crime of deceiving sb in order to get money or goods illegally:
She was charged with credit card fraud. * property that has been obtained by fraud * a $100 million fraud
2 [C] a person who pretends to have qualities, abilities, etc. that they do not really have in order to deceive other people:
He's nothing but a liar and a fraud. * She felt a fraud accepting their sympathy (= because she was not really sad).
3 [C] something that is not as good, useful, etc. as people claim it is
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for fraud is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fraud a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fraud is tagged as noun.
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