english
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to get money or possessions dishonestly from someone
cheat
to deceive someone so that they do not get or keep something they have a right to:
• He used his charm to cheat the old lady out of everything he could get. • He’s afraid they’ll cheat him after he hands over the money.
con
informal to get money from someone by telling them lies:
• They conned her into spending thousands of pounds on useless equipment. • He conned money out of the public by pretending to collect for charity.
swindle
to get money from a person or organization by cheating them in a clever way:
• The painting has been stolen and the art gallery has been swindled out of a large sum of money. • A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds was jailed for four years.
defraud
to commit the crime of getting money from an organization by deceiving them:
• He admitted attempting to defraud his former employer of $1 million. • Johnson is accused of conspiring to defraud the taxman of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
do somebody out of something
informal especially British English to dishonestly stop someone from getting or keeping something, especially something they have a right to have:
• They’ve done me out of three weeks wages!
Longman-Thesaurus
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verb
swindle:
The owner will cheat you if he can.
noun
swindler:
The person is a cheat.
Simple Definitions
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cheat sb out of sth
to unfairly prevent someone from getting or achieving something which should belong to them
• She claimed that her cousin had cheated her out of her inheritance., cheat on sb
informal
If you cheat on your husband, wife or usual sexual partner, you secretly have a sexual relationship with someone else
• She found out that he'd been cheating on her.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs