FRAUDSTER


Meaning of FRAUDSTER in English

fraud ‧ ster /ˈfrɔːdstə $ ˈfrɒːdstər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

someone who has committed a fraud

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THESAURUS

■ different types of criminal

▪ thief someone who steals things:

Car thieves have been working in the area.

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The thieves stole over £5,000 worth of jewellery.

▪ robber someone who steals money or valuable things from a bank, shop etc – used especially when someone sees the person who is stealing:

a masked robber armed with a shotgun

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They were the most successful bank robbers in US history.

▪ burglar someone who goes into people’s homes in order to steal:

The burglars broke in through a window.

▪ shoplifter someone who takes things from shops without paying for them:

The cameras have helped the store catch several shoplifters.

▪ pickpocket someone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd:

A sign warned that pickpockets were active in the station.

▪ conman/fraudster someone who deceives people in order to get money or things:

Conmen tricked the woman into giving them her savings, as an ‘investment’.

▪ forger someone who illegally copies official documents, money, artworks etc:

a forger who fooled museum curators

▪ counterfeiter someone who illegally copies money, official documents, or goods:

Counterfeiters in Colombia are printing almost perfect dollar bills.

▪ pirate someone who illegally copies and sells another person’s work:

DVD pirates

▪ mugger someone who attacks and robs people in public places:

Muggers took his money and mobile phone.

▪ murderer someone who deliberately kills someone else:

His murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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the murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers

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He is a mass murderer (=someone who kills a large number of people) .

▪ serial killer someone who kills several people, one after the other over a period of time, in a similar way:

Shipman was a trusted family doctor who became Britain's worst serial killer.

▪ rapist someone who forces someone else to have sex:

Some rapists drug their victims so that they become unconscious.

▪ sex offender someone who is guilty of a crime related to sex:

Too many sex offenders are released from prison early.

▪ vandal someone who deliberately damages public property:

Vandals broke most of the school’s windows.

▪ arsonist someone who deliberately sets fire to a building:

The warehouse fire may have been the work of an arsonist.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.