fraud

noun
/fɹɔːd/UK/fɹoːd/

Etymology

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

  1. derived from fraus — “deceit, injury, offence
  2. derived from fraude
  3. inherited from fraude

Definitions

  1. The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

  2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

    • When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
    • 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.
  3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. A person who performs any such trick.

    2. A trap or snare.

      • to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
    3. To defraud.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fraud. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fraud02undeserved03unfair04fair05innocent06responsibility07culpable08guilty09dishonest10honest

A definitional loop anchored at fraud. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fraud

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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