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- noun a person who practices
fraud ; aswindler
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thanks to our wonderful European Union open borders, any rapist, armed robber, child-trafficker, drug dealer or fraudster from a member state can walk right in.
Doughnuts and Diversity; the essential ingredients of modern British policing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Rather, the entire story of the missing insurance fraudster is seemingly a red herring, an excuse to tell a story about Bellamy and his compulsive work ethic, his off-handed destructiveness toward the people in his life and his seeming cluelessness about himself.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Inspector Bellamy Marshall Fine 2010
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After all, any money they might lose to a fraudster is money THEY have to swallow themselves.
SeeLight: 2008
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After all, any money they might lose to a fraudster is money THEY have to swallow themselves.
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As for the British memo description of Chalabi as a "fraudster" -- a reference to his 1991 conviction in absentia for bank fraud in Jordan -- Markham said his client vigorously denies the charges and has filed a lawsuit in the United States that will ultimately show "the whole thing was a sham."
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Menashe, whom he has previously labelled a fraudster, must provide documentary evidence that his firm is not bogus.
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The fraudster could be a third party, an employee, a competitor or even a supplier.
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The fraudster could be a third party, an employee, a competitor or even a supplier.
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You're not trying to suggest that this James Frey is some kind of fraudster hack writer, are you?
Smallville Writers Assigned to Michael Bay’s I Am Number 4 | /Film 2009
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The defense has sought to portray him as a "fraudster" who lured down-and-out dupes into a phony scheme by offering them a pile of cash.
chained_bear commented on the word fraudster
"But London is corrosive to deference. Who you are is less important than what you seem, a fraudster of no family can impose himself on a gentleman from an ancient line simply by being better dressed and having a winning manner."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 314
October 16, 2008
EditorMark commented on the word fraudster
"Fraudster planned to use his own chips in casino."
-- May 26, 2010 Reuters headline.
OED's earliest reference is 1975 and all three of its examples are English press. M-W Unabridged suggests word is "chiefly British."
May 27, 2010