Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
swindling — index fraud, imposture, larceny, theft Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
swindling — Cheating and defrauding with deliberate artifice. Usually applied to a transaction where the guilty party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended contract, of the personal property of another, with the felonious design of appropriating it … Black's law dictionary
swindling — The acquisition of property or an instrument representing a valuable right by means of some device or fraudulent representation with intent to appropriate such property or instrument or to destroy or impair the right of the owner therein. 32 Am… … Ballentine's law dictionary
swindling — swin·dle || swɪndl n. cheating, fraud, deception v. defraud, cheat, deceive, con … English contemporary dictionary
swindling — n. Knavery, cheating, rascality, roguery, imposture … New dictionary of synonyms
swindling — swinˈdling noun and adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑swindle … Useful english dictionary
profit by swindling — index prey Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
cheating or swindling — As the words are ordinarily used, they relate to the fraudulent causing of pecuniary or property loss. United States v Cohn, 270 US 339, 346, 70 L Ed 606, 619, 46 S Ct 251 … Ballentine's law dictionary
МОШЕННИЧЕСТВО С ЦЕННЫМИ БУМАГАМИ — SWINDLINGПродажа сомнительных или ничего не стоящих ценных бумаг путем предоставления ложной информации о их качестве. М. может иметь место путем размещения рекламы, обещающей большие прибыли, или путем распространения бесплатных проспектов,… … Энциклопедия банковского дела и финансов
Swindle (chess) — In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss.[1][2][3][4][5] It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly… … Wikipedia
