Usually means: Deceives someone to gain financially.
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  1. defrauds: Merriam-Webster
  2. defrauds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defrauds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defrauds, defrauds: Wordnik
  5. defrauds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defrauds: Wiktionary
  7. defrauds: Dictionary.com
  8. defrauds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. defrauds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defrauds: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defrauds: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defraud)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To deprive.
▸ Also see defraud


Opposite:
honest, truthful, sincere, trustworthy, reliable

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Opposite:
honest, truthful, sincere, trustworthy, reliable




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