Crossword clues for counterfeiting
counterfeiting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterfeiting.]
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To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
--Goldsmith. To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who counterfeits. vb. (present participle of counterfeit English)
Usage examples of "counterfeiting".
Wood, who was also Keeper of the Capital Prison, had a sideline as a counterfeiting expert, bagging boodlers for the federal bounty money.
Wood, who was also Keeper of the Capital Prison, had a sideline as a counterfeiting expert, bagging boodlers for the federal bounty money.
They didn't mention counterfeiting, didn't mention which room the body was found, or the gun or fingerprints or wound.
It was hard to focus on roses with Feight and Tyson's deaths, right-wing politics and counterfeiting hovering unresolved in the background.
Tyson's note was a problem--the writer knew of the counterfeiting, the stolen roses and her investigation.
Andi admitted honestly, she didn't mention Simpson, though she had reason to kill her uncle--it was hard to figure her as part of the counterfeiting and she didn't seem capable of Tyson's locked-room murder.
It's hard not to assume this thing doesn't have counterfeiting running all through it.
As necessity beckoned, the Secret Service moved from fighting the counterfeiting of paper currency and the forging of checks, to the protection of funds transferred by wire.
It makes good sense to put this sort of thing in the charge of counterfeiting and wire-fraud experts.
There are interesting parallels between the Service's nineteenth-century entry into counterfeiting, and America's twentieth-century entry into computer-crime.
There had followed other successes, many of them equally accidental, and now, years later, he was behind a desk in the Treasury Building, trying to save America from a counterfeiting menace, but still yearning for the days when he fought and beat the Nazi menace almost single-handed.
As necessity beckoned, the Secret Service moved from fighting the counterfeiting of paper currency and the forging of checks, to the protection of funds transferred by wire.
It makes good sense to put this sort of thing in the charge of counterfeiting and wire-fraud experts.
Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, and no other crimes whatsoever.
Say you're after a Yank from New York, who's been counterfeiting money in the States, tell our angry London merchants you think he's moved his operation to London.