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What is the noun for defraud?

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fraud
  1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
  2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
  3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
  4. A person who performs any such trick.
  5. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The Duc has turned this entire occasion into his own masquerade, a devious fraud to manipulate the people's passions.”
      “It is not contended in this case that the claimants had knowledge of any fraud on the part of Hatoun, or that they are chargeable with bad faith.”
      “If we do not expose him for a fraud and a charlatan, we give him credibility.”
fraudulence
  1. The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This appears to be the moment to finally establish in everyone's mind the deep fraudulence and corruptness of his various enterprises.”
      “The endlessly announced death, disproof and fraudulence of psychoanalysis is not merely the sport of bigots.”
      “But its essential fraudulence stands exposed, and it's hard to see how that exposure can be undone.”
defraudation
defraudment
  1. (obsolete) Privation by fraud; defrauding
  2. Examples:
    1. “The main objection to the system, I contended, was the defraudment and robbery of the tramp.”
fraudonomics
  1. economic system as a whole based on fraud
fraudster
  1. a person who practices fraud; a swindler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And what happens when a fraudster tricks an iris-scanning machine by using a digital image of somebody else's eye?”
      “This must be a real, not a fictitious, intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.”
      “If he is a fraudster, then those who supported him must be held accountable for doing so.”
fraudmeister
  1. A person who commits fraud for profit.
fraudsman
fraudulency
  1. (dated) fraudulence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fraudulency of the act was thus established, and so recognized by the court, although the accused was acquitted by the jury.”
      “There had to be considered, also, the fraudulency of continuing to inflict such a woman on society in the guise of a lady.”
fraudulentness
  1. (rare) fraudulence
defrauder
  1. One who defrauds.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He had already confessed himself before witnesses to adultery and was commonly known to be a cozener or defrauder of men.”
      “This consciousness pushed the Medicaid defrauder, for example, to build a huge mansion in her village knowing that she might never live in it.”
      “In the United States even the most unrepentant, obviously guilty serial killer or multimillion-dollar defrauder is entitled to a defense.”
defrauding
defraudations
fraudmeisters
  1. plural of fraudmeister
fraudulences
defraudments
  1. plural of defraudment
defraudings
fraudsmen
  1. plural of fraudsman
fraudsters
  1. plural of fraudster
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And yet these medical fraudsters have deep pockets, and so he is lawyering against a government that he belongs to, and took an oath to uphold.”
      “The fraudsters then made rapid withdrawals from as many accounts as possible overnight.”
      “Now fraudsters are applying similar tricks against potential enterprise victims.”
defrauders
  1. plural of defrauder
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Seal of Confidence is displayed near store entrances to discourage defrauders and reassure customers.”
      “The band makes it possible to detect any attempt to open a bag with cold or heat, the two most common methods used by defrauders.”
      “She approached the topic by presenting various statistics on the average age of defrauders, their salary and their education level.”
frauds
  1. plural of fraud
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  3. Examples:
    1. “What I'm talking about are serial losers and bamboozlers, serial frauds and fakes, serial blusterers and blowhards.”
      “She had made false accusations against him, made him go on the run and set him up to take the blame for her frauds.”
      “Actually, much of the licensing and regulation is aimed at protecting the public from frauds and quacks.”
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