Genocide vs Fraud - What's the difference?
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The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
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To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
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
As nouns the difference between genocide and fraud
is that genocide is genocide while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As a verb fraud is
(obsolete) to defraud.genocide
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(wikipedia genocide)Noun
Usage notes
(Genocide definitions) Genocide is defined in various laws, and used in varying ways; characterization of an act as “genocide” is a strong condemnation, and may prove contentious. Narrowly speaking, genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group qua group, whether killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, “genocide” is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of the group or some other purpose, such as terrorizing the group. Specific genocides are often capitalized, e.g. "Armenian G enocide".Derived terms
* autogenocide, auto-genocide * cultural genocide * genocidal * genocidally * genocidism * genocidistSee also
* crime against humanity * dehumanization * democide * ethnic cleansing * holocaust, Holocaust * Holodomor * mass murder * Porajmos * pogrom * Shoah * war crimeVerb
(en-verb)References
fraud
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Noun
(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