COUNTERFEIT


Meaning of COUNTERFEIT in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.

He admitted possessing and delivering ~ currency.

= fake

ADJ: usu ADJ n

Counterfeit is also a noun.

Levi Strauss says ~s of the company’s jeans are flooding Europe.

= fake

N-COUNT

2.

If someone ~s something, they make a version of it that is not genuine but has been made to look genuine in order to deceive people.

...the coins Davies is alleged to have ~ed.

VERB: V n

~er (~ers)

...a gang of ~ers.

N-COUNT: usu pl

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