Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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 or unlawful gain. · The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end. · A person who performs any such trick.
To defraud.
Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
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