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fraudster

noun
/ˈfɹɔdstɚ/US/ˈfɹɔːdstə/UK/ˈfɹɑdstɚ/

Etymology

From fraud + -ster.

  1. derived from fraus — “deceit, injury, offence”
  2. derived from fraude
  3. inherited from fraude
  4. suffixed as fraudster — “fraud + ster”

Definitions

  1. A person who carries out fraud

    A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.

    • CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.
    • Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fraudster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA