0 past simple and past participle of swindle --
1 to get money dishonestly from someone by deceiving or cheating them: --
The wealthy banker was ultimately convicted of swindling investors.
They swindled local businesses out of thousands of dollars.
It is know that anyone who is determined to be caught out and swindled will be swindled.
The pension fund also lent money to someone who swindled the company.
If people are being swindled they tend to talk about it and will report it.
They should not, along with those in receipt of child benefit or other social security payments allow themselves to be swindled by these proposals.
It is extraordinarily hard for the ordinary customer to know whether he has been swindled or not.
If they do get a better type of education, the other children are being swindled.
I was swindled then, and we were swindled today.
In connection with that, the men have been swindled out of £5.
