Fraud

Definition

fraud / frↄ:d / n ၁။ [U, C] လိမ္လည္မႈ။ be found guilty of fraud ❍ a dramatic rise in computer / credit card / cheque card fraud ❍ a £ 2.5 m fraud. ၂။ [C] (က) အတု။ အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ She was a fraud — she had no medical qualifications at all. (ခ) အလိမ္။ This language study method is a complete fraud. ❏ fraudster n လိမ္လည္မႈ က်ဴးလြန္သူ။ လူလိမ္။ ❏ fraudulence / 'frↄ:djǝlǝns; US -dʒǝ- / n [U] လိမ္လည္ မႈ။ မ႐ိုးသားမႈ။ ❏ fraudulent / 'frↄ:djǝlǝnt;; US -dʒǝ- / adj ၁။ မမွန္ မကန္ [ေသာ]။ make fraudulent insurance claims. ၂။ အေယာင္ေဆာင္။ a fraudulent display of emotion. ❏ fraudulently / 'frↄ:djǝlǝntli; US -dʒǝ- / adv လိမ္လည္ လွည့္ျဖားလ်က္။ ကလိမ္ကက်စ္။ act fraudulently.

Examples

1. Police are investigating a complex fraud involving several bogus contractors.
2. Tax/insurance/benefit fraud
3. Fraud trials/cases
4. Electoral fraud
5. The whole research programme was an elaborate fraud.