• (British) IPA: /fɹɔːd/
• (America) enPR: frôd, IPA: /fɹɔd/
• (cot-caught, Northern Cities Vowel Shift) enPR: frŏd, IPA: /fɹɑd/

fraud

1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 228744960 ↗, canto II:

     When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.

3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. A person who performs any such trick.
5. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:

     to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud

• swindle
• scam
• (criminal) deceit
• trickery
• hoky-poky
• imposture
• (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
• grift

• defraud
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• fraudulently
• fraudulentness
• insurance fraud
• mail fraud
• pious fraud
• wire fraud

• French: fraude
• German: Betrug, Schwindel
• Italian: frode, frodi, baratteria
• Portuguese: fraude, falcatrua, logro, estelionato (legal)
• Russian: моше́нничество
• Spanish: fraude

• German: Hochstapelei
• Portuguese: falsidade ideológica

• French: imposteur, charlatan
• German: Betrüger, Betrügerin, Hochstapler
• Portuguese: fraudador
• Russian: моше́нник
• Spanish: defraudador

fraud (frauds, present participle frauding; past and past participle frauded)

1. (obsolete) To defraud