SWINDLE


Meaning of SWINDLE in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to swindle the insurance company he worked for.

Investors have been swindled out of millions of pounds.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And Fakhru will appreciate my method of operating because has not Fakhru on many occasions swindled me?

Forbes, too, ended up in prison for swindling the government over supplies to hospitals.

He swindled only himself and his unsuspecting family.

He used to swindle people out of their land.

Slaughter, Lieutenant, Captain Waters's accomplice in swindling the Tuggses.

The agent tried to swindle him out of his deposit and Marc's trying to sort it out.

When they were doing business and Fong knew he was being swindled, he had nothing but bald hatred for the Ismaili.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The whole property development proposal was a swindle . They never intended to build anything.

Young was convicted for his participation in a $2 million stock swindle .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Donna in confusion said she didn't know what insurance swindle .

He knew the milk deal was a swindle , the handbills another fraud.

Hundreds, thousands, and not one of them with sufficient imagination to try a really extravagant swindle .

She couldn't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle .

Since that is nothing short of a swindle , should not the Minister stop it?

The annual audit, due in April, would have uncovered the swindle .

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