Definition: a deception for profit to yourself
Main entry: rig, swindle, cheat
Definition: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Usage: that book is a fraud
Main entry: deceiver, beguiler, trickster, cheat, cheater, slicker
Definition: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Main entry: Bromus secalinus, cheat, chess
Definition: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Main entry: Lolium temulentum, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, darnel
Definition: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
Main entry: shaft, screw, cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey
Definition: defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Main entry: rip off, cheat, chisel
Definition: deprive somebody of something by deceit
Usage: The con-man beat me out of $50; This salesman ripped us off!; we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme; They chiseled me out of my money
Definition: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Usage: Who's chiseling on the side?
Main entry: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander, cuckold
Definition: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Usage: She cheats on her husband; Might her husband be wandering?