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Forgery vs Counterfeiting - What's the difference?

forgery | counterfeiting |

As nouns the difference between forgery and counterfeiting

is that forgery is the act of forging metal into shape while counterfeiting is the act of one who counterfeits.

As a verb counterfeiting is

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forgery

English

(wikipedia forgery)

Noun

(forgeries)
  • The act of forging metal into shape.
  • :
  • The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  • (lb) An invention, creation.

    • Synonyms

    * counterfeit * fake

    Derived terms

    * forger

    counterfeiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who counterfeits.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)