Usually means: Deceptive schemes to cheat others.
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  1. swindles: Merriam-Webster
  2. swindles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swindles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Swindle's, Swindles, swindles: Wordnik
  5. swindles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Swindles, swindles: Wiktionary
  7. swindles: Dictionary.com
  8. swindles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Swindles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. swindles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See swindle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Swindle)

verb:  (transitive) To defraud.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
verb:  (chess) for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw
noun:  An instance of swindling.
noun:  Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
noun:  (chess) An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
noun:  A surname.
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