COUNTERFEIT


Meaning of COUNTERFEIT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kaʊntə(r)fɪt ]

( counterfeits, counterfeiting, counterfeited)

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 counterfeit currency.

= fake

ADJ : usu ADJ n

Counterfeit is also a noun.

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

= fake

N-COUNT

2.

If someone counterfeits 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 counterfeited.

VERB : V n

• counter‧feit‧er

(counterfeiters)

...a gang of counterfeiters.

N-COUNT : usu pl

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