Cheat vs. Fraud

Cheatverb

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

Cheatverb

(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

Cheatverb

(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.

Cheatverb

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Cheatverb

To beguile.

Cheatnoun

Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).

Cheatnoun

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

Cheatnoun

The weed cheatgrass.

Cheatnoun

A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

Cheatnoun

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

Cheatnoun

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

Cheatnoun

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

Cheatnoun

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; - called also chess. See Chess.

Cheatnoun

The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

Cheatnoun

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

Cheatverb

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

Cheatverb

To beguile.

Cheatverb

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

Cheatnoun

weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Cheatnoun

weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Cheatnoun

someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Cheatnoun

the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;

Cheatnoun

a deception for profit to yourself

Cheatverb

deprive somebody of something by deceit;

Cheatverb

defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

Cheatverb

engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

Cheatverb

be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;

Fraudnoun

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

Fraudnoun

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Fraudnoun

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

Fraudnoun

A person who performs any such trick.

Fraudnoun

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

Fraudverb

(obsolete) To defraud

Fraudnoun

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Fraudnoun

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Fraudnoun

A trap or snare.

Fraudnoun

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

Fraudnoun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Fraudnoun

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.