Usually means: Deceptive attempt to steal information.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word phishing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. phishing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phishing: Merriam-Webster
  3. phishing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phishing: The Word Spy
  5. phishing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Phishing, phishing: Wordnik
  7. phishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. phishing: Wiktionary
  9. phishing: Dictionary.com
  10. Phishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. phishing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Phishing: World Wide Words

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. phishing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Phishing: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  4. Phishing: Investopedia
  5. Phishing: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Phishing: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. phishing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. phishing: Netlingo
  4. Phishing: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. Technopedia (No longer online)
  7. phishing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phishing: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
noun:  The act of circumventing security with an alias.

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