0 past simple and past 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:
These estimates are put on quite unjustly, and these poor people are defrauded of the full pension.
After that deception was uncovered, it transpired that he had defrauded another authority for whom he had previously worked of a further £48,000.
It is one in which the consumer can be very much defrauded.
Clearly, these elderly people were conned, fooled and—in some cases—quite deliberately defrauded into signing an agreement that they did not really understand.
The result will be that he will be absolutely defrauded of his vote in that way.
Companies nowadays are vulnerable to the misuse of funds or to being defrauded by particular individuals.
It is a well-known fact that as far as that matter is concerned people are defrauded again and again out of their proper weight.
The bank has been defrauded of that sum.
