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Swindle
swindle
(swindles, swindling, swindled) If someone swindles a person or an organization, they deceive them in order to get something valuable from them, especially money. A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds... VERB: V n out of n • Swindle is also a noun. He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle. N-COUNT
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I. verb (~d; swindling) Etymology: back-formation from ~r, from German Schwindler giddy person, from schwindeln to be dizzy, from Old High German swintilon, frequentative of swintan to diminish, vanish; akin to Old English swindan to vanish Date: circa 1782 intransitive verb to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit transitive verb to take money or property from by fraud or deceit Synonyms: see cheat • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1821 an act or instance of swindling ; fraud ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. (often foll. by out of) 1 cheat (a person) of money, possessions, etc. (was swindled out of all his savings). 2 cheat a person of (money etc.) (swindled all his savings out of him). --n. 1 an act of swindling. 2 a person or thing represented as what it is not. 3 a fraudulent scheme. Derivatives swindler n. Etymology: back-form. f. swindler f. G Schwindler extravagant maker of schemes, swindler, f. schwindeln be dizzy ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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I сущ. общ. мошенничество, надувательство; афера, сомнительная сделка Syn: fraud II гл. общ. обманывать, надувать SWINDLE 1. сущ. мошенничество, надувательство 2. гл. обманывать, надувать ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. обман, мошенничество, надувательство 2. обманывать, мошенничать, надувать to swindle smth. out of smb., to swindle smb. out of smth. —- выманить у кого-л. что-л., взять у кого-л. что-л. обманным путем I am not so easily swindled —- меня не так легко надуть to swindle smb. into buying an inferior article —- всучить кому-л. недоброкачественный товар ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun надувательство 2. v. обманывать, надувать; to swindle money out of a person, to swindle a person out of his money - взять у кого-л. деньги обманным путем, выманить у кого-л. деньги Syn: see cheat ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v to get money from someone by deceiving them (swindle sb out of sth) (He made a fortune swindling old ladies out of their life savings.) ~2 n a situation where someone gets money by deceiving someone else (a big tax swindle) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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