swindle

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• Swindle — es un personaje ficticio del mundo de los Transformers el pertenece a las filas de los Decepticons del grupo de los Combaticons. Contenido 1 Transformers G1 2 Transformers Robots In Disguise 3 Transformers Armada …   Wikipedia Español

• swindle — swin‧dle [ˈswɪndl] verb [transitive] LAW to get money from someone dishonestly by deceiving them: swindle somebody out of something • He was convicted of charges that he swindled clients and partners out of £3.5 million. swindle something out of… …   Financial and business terms

• swindle — index bait (lure), betray (lead astray), bilk, bunko, cheat, circumvent, deceive …   Law dictionary

• Swindle — Swin dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swindled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swindling}.] [See {Swindler}.] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. [1913 Webster] Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• swindle — [n] cheating, stealing blackmail, cheat, con, crooked deal*, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, double cross*, double dealing*, extortion, fake, fast one*, fast shuffle*, frame up, fraud, hoax, hustle, imposition, imposture, knavery, racket*, rip… …   New thesaurus

• Swindle — Swin dle, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• swindle — 1782 (v.); 1833 (n.), back formation from SWINDLER (Cf. swindler). Related: Swindled; swindling …   Etymology dictionary

• swindle — vb *cheat, overreach, cozen, defraud Analogous words: *dupe, gull, bamboozle, hoodwink, trick: *steal, pilfer, purloin, filch …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• swindle — ► VERB ▪ use deception to obtain (money) or deprive (someone) of money or possessions. ► NOUN ▪ a fraudulent scheme or action. DERIVATIVES swindler noun. ORIGIN German schwindeln be giddy , also «tell lies» …   English terms dictionary

• swindle — [swin′dəl] vt. swindled, swindling [back form. < SWINDLER] 1. to get money or property from (another) under false pretenses; cheat; defraud 2. to get by false pretenses or fraud vi. to engage in swindling others n. an act of swindling; trick;… …   English World dictionary

• Swindle — The term Swindle may refer to:* Swindle, a confidence trick * Swindle, a kind of fraud * Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss *… …   Wikipedia