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Topic: CRIME

defraud

 verb
     
de‧fraud [transitive]
SCC to trick a person or organization in order to get money from them
defraud somebody of something
She defrauded her employers of thousands of pounds.
He faces charges of theft and conspiracy to defraud (=a secret plan to cheat someone, made by two or more people).
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