Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - cheat
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Cheat
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(cheats, cheating, cheated) 1. When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam. Students may be tempted to cheat in order to get into top schools. VERB: V • cheating In an election in 1988, he was accused of cheating by his opponent. N-UNCOUNT 2. Someone who is a cheat does not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying. Cheats will be disqualified. N-COUNT 3. If someone cheats you out of something, they get it from you by behaving dishonestly. The company engaged in a deliberate effort to cheat them out of their pensions... Many brokers were charged with cheating customers in commodity trades. VERB: V n out of/of n, V n 4. If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed. (JOURNALISM) He cheated death when he was rescued from the roof of his blazing cottage. PHRASE: V inflects
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I. verb Etymology: 2~ Date: 1590 transitive verb 1. to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud 2. to influence or lead by deceit, trick, or artifice 3. to elude or thwart by or as if by outwitting ~ death intransitive verb 1. a. to practice fraud or trickery b. to violate rules dishonestly ~ at cards ~ing on a test 2. to be sexually unfaithful — usually used with on was ~ing on his wife 3. to position oneself defensively near a particular area in anticipation of a play in that area the shortstop was ~ing toward second base • ~er noun Synonyms: ~, cozen, defraud, swindle mean to get something by dishonesty or deception. ~ suggests using trickery that escapes observation ~ed me out of a dollar. cozen implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars. defraud stresses depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer. swindle implies large-scale ~ing by misrepresentation or abuse of confidence swindled of their savings by con artists. II. noun Etymology: earlier ~ forfeited property, from Middle English chet es~, short for eschete — more at es~ Date: 1615 1. the act or an instance of fraudulently deceiving ; deception, fraud 2. one that ~s ; pretender, deceiver 3. probably from a deceptive resemblance to grain a. chess 1 b. ~grass 4. the obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. a (often foll. by into, out of) deceive or trick (cheated into parting with his savings). b (foll. by of) deprive of (cheated of a chance to reply). 2 intr. gain unfair advantage by deception or breaking rules, esp. in a game or examination. 3 tr. avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill (cheated the bad weather). 4 tr. archaic divert attention from, beguile (time, tedium, etc.). --n. 1 a person who cheats. 2 a trick, fraud, or deception. 3 an act of cheating. Phrases and idioms cheat on colloq. be sexually unfaithful to. Derivatives cheatingly adv. Etymology: ME chete f. achete, var. of ESCHEAT ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) мошенник мошенничать to cheat an interlock — обходить охранную сигнализацию 2) мошенничество 3) бот. костёр (растение) ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. мошенничество, жульничество; обман 2. мошенник; жулик, плут, обманщик; шулер; самозванец 3. мошенничать, обманывать to cheat at examinations —- пользоваться шпаргалками, подсказками на экзаменах to cheat smb. out of his money —- обманом выманить деньги у кого-л to cheat at cards —- жульничать в карты; быть шулером 4. изменять (супругу) 5. обманывать to cheat the eye —- обмануть зрение to cheat death —- чудом избежать смерти to cheat time —- коротать время to cheat the journey —- убивать дорожную скуку 6. бот. костер ржаной (Bromus secalinus) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) мошенничество; обман 2) обманщик, плут topping cheat - виселица 2. v. 1) мошенничать; обманывать he cheated me (out) of five dollars - он надул меня на пять долларов - cheat on smb. - cheat at smth. - cheat into - cheat out of 2) избежать чего-л. to cheat the gallows - избежать виселицы 3) занимать чем-л. - cheat time - cheat the journey - cheat on Syn: con, defraud, fleece, swindle, victimize CHEAT time коротать время CHEAT on изменять (супругу) Have you been cheating on me while Ive been away? CHEAT at smth. нечестно играть во что-л. Jim said that his brother had cheated at cards. CHEAT out of убедить, обманом выманить The clever salesman cheated the old lady out of giving him all her money. CHEAT the journey коротать время в пути CHEAT on smb. вести себя нечестно по отношению к кому-л. (другу, партнеру, мужу и т.п.) CHEAT into убедить, обманом выманить The clever salesman cheated the old lady into giving him all her money. ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to behave in a dishonest way in order to win or to get an advantage, especially in a competition, game, or examination (You're doing it again, you're trying to cheat!) + a (Jack always cheats at cards.) that's cheating (Hey, don't look at the next page - that's cheating!) 2 to trick or deceive someone who trusts you (Don't just jump to conclusions that you've been deliberately cheated. | cheat sb (out) of sth) (Guy figures he was cheated out of that job by office politics.) 3 feel cheated to feel that you have been treated wrongly or unfairly and have not got what you deserve (I feel cheated really. I was meant to go to France and now it's only Leeds.) 4 cheat death/fate etc to manage to avoid death etc even though it seemed that you would not be able to cheat on sb phr v to be unfaithful to your husband, wife, or sexual partner by secretly having sex with someone else (I think Winnie's been cheating on me, but I can't prove it.) ~2 n 1 someone who is dishonest and cheats (I saw you look at that card, you cheat!) 2 a cheat something that is dishonest or unfair (That's a cheat! The box is half empty!) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., aphetic of O.Fr. escheat, legal term for revision of property to state when owner dies without heirs, lit. "that which falls to one," pp. of escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," from V.L. *excadere "to fall away," from L. ex- "out" + cadere "to fall." Meaning evolved through "confiscate" to "deprive unfairly." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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