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A deception for profit to yourself
Answer for the clue "A deception for profit to yourself ", 8 letters:
cheating
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Word definitions for cheating in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deceptiveness, swindling," 1530s, verbal noun from cheat (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cheating is the getting of a reward for ability or finding an easy way out of an unpleasant situation by dishonest means. It is generally used for the breaking of rules to gain unfair advantage in a competitive situation. This broad definition will necessarily ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous , cheating(a) , two-timing(a) ] violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating .] [See Cheat , n., Escheat .] To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. ...
Usage examples of cheating.
After supper she held a bank, and I was greatly astonished when I saw her cheating with great dexterity.
Just as we were finishing supper, an Englishman, who had been of the whist party, came up and told Walpole that the Italian had been caught cheating and had given the lie to their fellow Englishman, who had detected him, and that they had gone out together.
Carrying my gun, with a good warm cloak over my uniform and with a large bag containing all my purchases, I take leave of the worthy Greek, and am landed on the shore, determined on obtaining a lodging from the cheating papa, by fair means or foul.
Well, their cheating was done with the book, and I have done them a kindness by taking it from them.
I was soon in her arms, and for four hours we gave ourselves up to every kind of pleasure, cheating each other the better to succeed, and laughing with delight each time we convinced each other of our love.
I liked this way of putting it, though I had not the slightest idea of cheating the girl out of the sum I had promised her.
Our occupation is robbing, cheating, and escaping from one land to another.
He made an uproar over this piece of cheating, but the soldiers only laughed at him.
Naples only live by cheating, and especially by imposing on strangers.
The latter had not yet given up hopes of cheating the chevalier in one way or another.
Marber might have been cheating his artists and clients alike: charging over the odds, paying too little .
If this kind of teacher cheating is truly going on, how might it be detected?
One of these classrooms almost certainly had a cheating teacher and the other did not.
Here again are the answer strings from classroom A, now reordered by a computer that has been asked to apply the cheating algorithm and seek out suspicious patterns.
Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total.