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