forgery
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
forgery
- The act of forging metal into shape.
- the forgery of horseshoes
- The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
- the forgery of a bond
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- (archaic) An invention, creation.
- German: Schmieden
- Portuguese: forjamento, forjadura
- Russian: ко́вка
- Spanish: forjadura
- German: Fälschen, Fälschung
- Italian: falsificazione
- Portuguese: forjamento, forjadura
- Russian: подло́г
- Spanish: falsificación
- German: Fälschung, Falsifikat
- Portuguese: falsificação
- Russian: подде́лка
- Spanish: falsificación
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