Irregularity vs Fraud - What's the difference?
irregularity | fraud |
(countable) An instance of being irregular.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
(countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
(countable) A violation of rules.
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 irregularity and fraud
is that irregularity is an instance of being irregular while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As a verb fraud is
to defraud.irregularity
English
Noun
- an irregularity of surface
- An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.
Antonyms
* regularityfraud
English
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