Defraud vs Fraud - What's the difference?
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To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
Fraud is a related term of defraud.
As verbs the difference between defraud and fraud
is that defraud is to obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle while fraud is to defraud.As a noun fraud is
any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.defraud
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* fraudster English transitive verbsfraud
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(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud