Usually means: Misrepresentation to obtain something undeserved.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word subreption:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. subreption: Merriam-Webster
  2. subreption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. subreption: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subreption: Wordnik
  5. subreption: Wiktionary
  6. subreption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. subreption: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. subreption: Dictionary.com
  9. Subreption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Subreption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. subreption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Subreption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. subreption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. subreption: FreeDictionary.org
  15. subreption: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. subreption: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. subreption: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subreption, subreption: A Word A Day

(Note: See subreptitious as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subreption)

noun:  (historical) Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
noun:  (Catholic canon law) The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
noun:  (Scots law) The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
noun:  (philosophy) The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.
noun:  a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant",[5] "the obtainment of a dispensation or gift by concealment of the truth".

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