Fraudsterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɹɔːdstə/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈfɹɑdstɚ/

名詞

fraudster (plural fraudsters)

1. a person who practices fraud; a swindler.
   • 2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail

     With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.

   • 2020 January 29, “Woman jailed for conning her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed”, in CPS Mersey-Cheshire‎, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2020-01-30:

     CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.

   • 2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

     Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:fraudster

派生語

参考

• confabulator, pathological liar (not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms)
• deadbeat