defraud
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beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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About a week after the league shut down, two former AAF players filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were defrauded. — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, "MGM acquires bankrupt football league’s gaming technology," 19 Aug. 2019 Grewal said that New Jersey uses the donor information the IRS collects to safeguard against charitable organizations that collect money in his state from defrauding or deceiving the public. — Washington Post, "Judge blocks IRS rule to halt nonprofit donor disclosures," 31 July 2019 In January 2018, the bank informed the CBI that diamond merchants Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi had defrauded it of, what was later ascertained as, Rs14,357 crore. — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, "Another major scam rocks India’s fourth largest bank," 7 July 2019 After the misrepresentations became public, a Temple M.B.A. student sued the university, alleging that he and others were defrauded. — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, "Temple business dean forced out over falsified MBA data used in rankings," 9 July 2018 In 2007, the parent company of Purdue pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge of misbranding OxyContin with the intent to defraud or mislead. — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, "Large-Scale Art Protest Outside OxyContin Maker Ends in Arrest," 22 June 2018 In 2008, the clinic’s former chief financial officer, Carl Gill, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for defrauding the organization out of $773,000. — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, "End of an era in Haight-Ashbury: Original free clinic closes its doors," 3 Aug. 2019 Co-founder Billy McFarland, 26, was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting to defrauding investors of $26 million and over a $100,000 ticket-selling scam. — Fox News, "Music event canceled over security, fraud concerns; compared to Fyre fest fiasco," 30 June 2019 His lawyer, Mike McCrum, argued in closing arguments that Rodriguez had no willful intent to defraud anyone. — Guillermo Contreras, ExpressNews.com, "Jury swiftly convicts San Antonio clinic owner of fraud, aggravated identity theft," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'defraud.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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