Word Meanings - TAKE-IN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imposition; fraud.

Related words: (words related to TAKE-IN)

• FRAUDFUL
  Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• IMPOSITION
  An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. 4. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• FRAUDLESS
  Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
• FRAUD
  An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. 3. A trap or snare. To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud , an act, statement, or omission which operates
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• YAZOO FRAUD
  The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for 0,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo
• DEFRAUDMENT
  Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.
• DEFRAUDER
  One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.