transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃi:t ]
( 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
• cheat‧ing
In an election in 1988, he was accused of cheating by his opponent.
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2.
Someone who is a cheat does not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying.
Cheats will be disqualified.
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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