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(archaic) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
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(euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
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The right of one belligerent (government) in a conflict to seize, use or destroy the property of another belligerent or neutral state, or the private citizens thereof, provided compensation is paid.
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Alternative form of barrator [One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.]
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The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones.
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One who bills (caresses in fondness), in the context of billing and cooing.
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Alternative form of Black Hander [A person who carries on the Black Hand extortion racket.]
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(Caribbean) organized fraud; corruption
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(slang) To engage in bribery.
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One who engages in brinksmanship.
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(US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
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One who engages in contra-trading, a form of tax fraud.
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(nonce word) To commit crime.
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(obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
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Obsolete spelling of defraud [(transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.]
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(obsolete) Privation by fraud; defrauding
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The act of despoiling, plundering, or snatching away.
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(law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
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(transitive) To forcibly deprive (someone) of something to which she or he has a natural right for one's own benefit.
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One from whom something is extorted.
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The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
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(intelligence) To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few.
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(criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
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(idiomatic, figuratively, US) A financial windfall obtainable by a socioeconomically disadvantaged person.
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(uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
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(transitive, informal) To bribe.
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(idiomatic) Said of excessive or exorbitant prices.
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Obsolete form of embezzlement. [(law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.]
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Obsolete form of embracery. [(law) An attempt to bribe or illegally influence a jury or a member of a jury to one side or the other.]
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(law) Receiving insurance policy-based compensation by intentionally causing an event due to which the claim for the compensation for insured property becomes seemingly lawful, and by concealing the intention.
adj
Alternative spelling of jury-rigged [Improvised from whatever is available.]
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A fraudulent arrangement whereby a broker who has direct access to an exchange executes trades on behalf of a broker who does not.
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The improper or corrupt act or conduct of public or official business for the sake of private gain.
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Alternative spelling of jury-rig [(nautical, transitive) To make an improvised rigging or assembly from whatever is available.]
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(transitive) To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand.
adj
Alternative form of jury-rigged [Improvised from whatever is available.]
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(US) Prevention of a loss of profit (instances of theft, fraud, etc.) done by retail stores.
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(slang, dated, rare, transative, intransitive) To beg; to beg for money.
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One who agitates for change; rabble rouser.
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Alternative form of misdealer [One who misdeals.]
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The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care.
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A person who misappropriates.
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(in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
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(Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
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(law, US) A legal tactic in court proceedings, intended to place the opponent on to the wrong foot by unethical use of court procedures:
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(figuratively) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
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(law, chiefly historical) The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.
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(law) A misdemeanor larceny; an act of theft wherein the amount stolen is insufficient to constitute grand larceny.
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Alternative letter-case form of Ponzi scam [Synonym of Ponzi scheme.]
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Synonym of one of His Majesty's bad bargains
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Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
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The criminal action of being involved in a racket.
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A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.
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(law) The act of reselling a genuine product under one's own trade name rather than that of the true manufacturer.
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One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
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To betray for money or other things.
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(Australia, slang) Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.
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(countable, slang) An amount owed on account of or payment of a bookie's charge or of interest.
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A state of preparedness for waging war.
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A person or group that gains a significant amount of revenue from selling weapons and military equipment.
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One who warmongers; a warmonger.
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Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.
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Someone who woos or courts.
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