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: --
There is no question in the book ring of a vendor being defrauded of as much as £40,000 which.
If it can be defrauded in one part of the country, it can be defrauded anywhere.
Of course the public are equally defrauded whichever may be the cause.
That fight is, of course, desperately important: every pound of which the system is defrauded is a pound less for someone in genuine need.
I have no evidence that secretaries of public companies have been responsible for major scandals or instrumental in shareholders being defrauded.
We are entirely in accord with their intention; every pound defrauded from the system is a pound less for those in real need.
So it is a matter of fact that the person has defrauded the system twice.
The bank has been defrauded of that sum.
