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How to pronounce defraud in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
Type of cheat, chisel, rip off
Has types short, short-change
Derivation defrauder


She defrauded the customers who trusted her.

Examples of defraud

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David Cowdery was given a two-year suspended sentence for conspiracy to defraud.
From the dailymail.co.uk
The scheme sought to defraud the banks of more than $4 million in student loans.
From the chron.com
She testified there was no scheme to defraud clients by overbilling for airfare.
From the post-gazette.com
Wyke instead presses him into an intricate plot to defraud an insurance company.
From the time.com
Tsuyuki is charged with multiple counts of grand theft and a scheme to defraud.
From the ocregister.com
The government alleges that Starr used two main schemes to defraud his clients.
From the cnn.com
It doesn't matter if his cronies loot companies and defraud their shareholders.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Ayoub and Elias have been charged with attempting to defraud betting agencies.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
Espinal has been indicted on grand larceny, scheme to defraud and related charges.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • Victimize: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
  • In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent.
  • To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle
  • To deprive of something by deception or fraud
  • To make a MISREPRESENTATION of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or her damage. ...
  • (2h)[horns], POs down, FOs away, DH contacts the NDH from above and slides past it. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - defraud.