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:
We are talking about systematically defrauding the system on a grand scale.
Is not it somewhat disgraceful that it has taken so long to investigate this case of defrauding parents and students?
But the fact is that this practice also provides an easy route for those intent on defrauding the system.
Other methods, including letters asking for information, tend to make people who are defrauding the system nervous.
There is no doubt that some people think that those living on benefits must be defrauding the system.
There has been no defrauding of the public purse.
It is deliberately defrauding the man of rights that he ought to possess.
It seemed as if we had to prove we were not defrauding anybody before we could start.
