Forgery
['fɔːdʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['fɔrdʒəri]
Definition
(noun.) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud.
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Definition
(n.) The act of forging metal into shape.
(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., 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; as, the forgery of a bond.
(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Counterfeiting, falsification.[2]. Counterfeit.
Editor: Wilma
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Falsification, counterfeit
ANT:Signature, verification, attestation
Edited by Everett
Examples
- For by that time it was known that the late Mr Merdle's complaint had been simply Forgery and Robbery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- President, I indignantly protest to you that this is a forgery and a fraud. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You may take it in your hand; it's no forgery. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I went immediately to Mr. Edison and told him of the forgery and the amount of money taken, and in what an embarrassing position we were for the next pay-roll. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That nice young person who began life with a forgery, and ended it by a suicide--your dear, romantic, interesting Chatterton. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Fraud, forgery, and conspiracy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The act is so amazing that one is driven towards the hypothesis of forgery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Could they not see at once the crude hand of a novice in that composition they called a forgery? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Put the pearl in the safe, Watson, said he, and get out the papers of the Conk-Singleton forgery case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But that is the misfortune of beginning with this kind of forgery. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Three burglaries, two forgeries, and a midnight assassination. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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