Unauthorized vs Fraud - What's the difference?
unauthorized | fraud |
not having any authority
without official authorization
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 an adjective unauthorized
is not having any authority.As a noun 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.unauthorized
English
Adjective
(-)Usage notes
* Objects: autobiography, copying, distribution, disclosure, publication, person, warfare, and a variety of others.fraud
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