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forgery

 noun
     
Related topics: Crime
for‧ge‧ry plural forgeries
1 [countable]SCC a document, painting, or piece of paper money that has been copied illegally [= fake]:
The painting was a very clever forgery.
2 [uncountable]SCC the crime of copying official documents, money etc
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