Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the crime of making or uttering false or fictitious coins or paper money.
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- verb Present participle of
counterfeit .
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Examples
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Only way to curb counterfeiting is to eliminate the financial incentive.
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At least $4 million in counterfeit U.S. currency has flooded into Iraq since December, and U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to determine how much of the counterfeiting is purely criminal and how much might be an Iranian attempt to influence Iraqi politics.
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Let me point out that counterfeiting is a federal law enforcement responsibility.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted? 2010
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The emotive term counterfeiting is in the title to make it sound as if only a member of organized crime would object to the agreement.
James Love: ACTA, an Example of Global Democracy Deficit -- the Secret Treaty Negotiation 2009
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The advertisers sent a report, published on the European Union website, that stated "Terrorist groups also commonly become involved in counterfeiting and piracy as a mean of financing their activities".
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"We’re getting what we want right now – we wanted the world to lift up," he said, adding counterfeiting is not as big as the "innovation problem."
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The corporate media outlets now routinely treat entertainment cartel statements as though they’re credible, counterfeiting is ‘piracy, sharing has become ‘thieving’ and a ‘crime,’ young children are labelled as ‘criminals’ and pilloried in public, extortion is OK, lying, disinformation, misinformation, the distortion of facts, and creative accounting are now absolutely integral to all entertainment cartel information packages.
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When the FBI dubbed counterfeiting "the crime of the century" they weren't just talking about Prada handbags and Rolex watches.
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But in reality, this ought to be called counterfeiting or bootlegging, and is the kind of copyright infringement that should be punished, not the use of p2p.
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In reality that's called counterfeiting, but the Fed has diplomatic immunity and doesn't do any hard time.
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