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名詞

fraudmeister (複数形 fraudmeisters)

1. A person who commits fraud for profit.
   • 2007, Gary Weiss, Wall Street Versus America: A Muckraking Look at the Thieves, Fakers, and Charlatans Who Are Ripping You Off, Penguin, →ISBN, page 46:

     This Canadian fraudmeister moved to Europe after being nabbed in a mining-stock scam in Ontario.

   • 2008, Gary Indiana, Utopia's Debris: Selected Essays, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 12:

     It was quite forgotten by the candidates and the press that the energy crisis was caused by deregulation and the leasing of the state's electricity to Enron and other now-convicted Texas fraudmeisters, […]

   • 2008, The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 24, Issues 7-12, page 611:

     Today, we are dealing with a new breed of potentially dangerous pests: the television and Web fraudmeisters who flog 'herbal remedies' and alternative medicines as cure-alls for almost every disease known to humankind.

同意語

• Thesaurus:fraudster