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Noun fraud has 3 senses
  1. fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
    --1 is a kind of     crime, law-breaking
    --1 has particulars:
     identity theft; mail fraud; election fraud; constructive fraud, legal fraud; extrinsic fraud, collateral fraud; fraud in fact, positive fraud; fraud in the factum; fraud in the inducement; intrinsic fraud; swindle, cheat, rig
  2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player - a person who makes deceitful pretenses
    --2 is a kind of deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
    --2 has particulars: name dropper; ringer
  3. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
    --3 is a kind of trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
    --3 has particulars: goldbrick; Piltdown man, Piltdown hoax
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