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Rorted vs Rooted - What's the difference?

rorted | rooted |

As verbs the difference between rorted and rooted

is that rorted is (rort) while rooted is (root).

As an adjective rooted is

fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.

rorted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rort)

    • Anagrams

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    rort

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources.
  • * 2008 , Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) , page 4067,
    • Not all of the projects were bad or rorts ; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities.
  • * 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet, page 81,
    • It?s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
  • * 2011 , Malcolm Knox, , Fierce Focus , unnumbered page,
    • The rort was that South Australia and Western Australia, who controlled their grounds, were allowed to double-dip. In Perth, for instance, the WACA sold season tickets, which they marketed in the form of memberships, to everything at the ground, including football. They had a huge membership and were rolling in money, but because they?d sold their tickets in memberships, they declared a loss on the cricket Test match. At the end of the season, though, they?d get the same twofourteenths(sic) of Pool Two as Queensland.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, transitive) To cheat or defraud.
  • * 1992 , Victorian Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) , page 496,
    • He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009, date=January 30 , author=Ben Packham , title=Same-sex couples accused of cheating system, work=Herald Sun citation , passage=SINGLE pensioners living together will come under scrutiny from Centrelink looking for same-sex couples rorting welfare.}}
  • * 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under , page 118,
    • York is then alleged to have rorted the doctor out of his share.

    Anagrams

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    rooted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
    • She stayed rooted in place.
  • * 2002 , Peter Loizos, Chapter Two: Misconceiving refugees?'', Renos K. Papadopoulos (editor), ''Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home , page 54,
    • Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.}}
  • (figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
  • * 1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy'', ''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer , Volume 51, page 205,
    • He will immediately break in on their mo?t rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ?atisfaction hack their darling notions with un?paring rigour and unblu?hing in?olence.
  • * 1985 , Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer Of The Computer , page 32,
    • The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
  • * 2011 , William P. Ryan, Working from the Heart: A Therapist?s Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy , page 47,
    • With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted .
  • Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
  • * 1979 , Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia , page 280,
    • Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul?s, the fashionable favorite.
  • * 1997 , William E. Reiser, To Hear God?s Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality , page 12,
    • For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted' in history and far more ' rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to.
  • * 2008 , Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity , page 93,
    • This form of humanism posed a greater danger to the monks and clerics than Italian humanism because it was less extravagant, less pagan, and more rooted in an ideal of Christian charity that the church at least nominally shared.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
  • (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
    • I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
    • I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted .
  • (computing, uncomparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
    • You are rooted . All your base are belong to us.

    Derived terms

    * unrooted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (root)