English Dictionary

fraud

IPA（発音記号）

/fɹɔːd/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. / Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

日本語の意味

相手を欺いて不正な利益を得る行為、すなわち詐欺行為全般を指す（詐欺罪など、虚偽の手段で金銭や財産を不法に取得する犯罪）

The accountant was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud after embezzling company funds.

その会計士は会社の資金を横領した後、詐欺の罪で懲役5年の刑を言い渡された。

意味（1）

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

意味（2）

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

When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.

意味（3）

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

意味（4）

A person who performs any such trick.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud

frauds （ plural ）