CHEAT


Meaning of CHEAT in English

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.

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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