0 present participle of defraud
1 to take something illegally from a person, company, etc., or to prevent someone from having something that is legally theirs by deceiving them:
Many different ways of defrauding companies are listed, but the hardest to detect is computer-based crime.
It is not right to say that organised criminal landlord fraud is exactly the same as an individual claimant defrauding the system.
One need look no further than clause 1, which removes references to defrauding and deceit and uses the word "prejudice".
It is the same offence: defrauding the purchaser.
Instead of defrauding the customer, it brought him a benefit.
We all deplore in any form the defrauding of the railways, and we have to protect the railways, whether nationalised or not.
They are defrauding the working class of this country of £10 million.
It seemed as if we had to prove we were not defrauding anybody before we could start.
