Fraud vs Correption - What's the difference?
fraud | correption |
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
(obsolete) chiding; reproof; reproach
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fraud and correption
is that fraud is (obsolete) to defraud while correption is (obsolete) chiding; reproof; reproach.As nouns the difference between fraud and correption
is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while correption is (obsolete) chiding; reproof; reproach.As a verb fraud
is (obsolete) to defraud.fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud , and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
Synonyms
* (criminal) deceit * trickery * hoky-poky * imposture * (person ) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), tricksterSee also
* embezzlement * false billing * false advertising * forgery * identity theft * predatory lending * quackery * usury * white-collar crimecorreption
English
Noun
- Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. — Hammond.