Skip to main content

defrauded

/dih-frawd/US // dɪˈfrɔd //UK // (dɪˈfrɔːd) //

受骗,被欺诈的,诈骗,被欺诈

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of a right, money, or property by fraud: Dishonest employees defrauded the firm of millions of dollars.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcheat, bilk

Examples

  • Rather, we’re talking about defrauding businesses, investors, and governments.

  • As part of the settlement with the federal government, Purdue will plead guilty to one count of defrauding the United States and two counts of violating the anti-kickback statute.

  • In February 2014, Citi disclosed that oil services firm Oceanografía had allegedly defrauded Banamex out of $400 million.

  • Minority investors in Brotman accused Lee of cooking its books to defraud them.

  • In so doing, Apple has defrauded the public and cheated its consumers.

  • Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.

  • Whether McDonnell and his wife defrauded the Commonwealth is a question that will ultimately be decided in court.

  • How many of the 36,000 clients that you defrauded have you called?

  • Allan Dodds Frank on the Picower fortune's origins, and why it's not nearly enough for some of the defrauded.

  • During a home renovation we did in 2008, our decorator defrauded us out of $37,000.

  • Suppose directors had defrauded their corporation, but the fraud was not discovered until several years afterward.

  • Vergil tells us that a special punishment in the underworld awaited the patron who defrauded a client.

  • Only Bertha, his neglected wife, was faithful and trusting in that gloomy day; all else had defrauded and betrayed him.

  • She left another farm to the cousin in Ireland, who had been defrauded when they separated their land.

  • He had always believed that she had defrauded him, but this belief had been qualified by the unbelief of others.