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Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
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forgery
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Word definitions for forgery in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ An art dealer insisted that the portrait is a forgery . ▪ Further investigation showed that the so-called "Hitler Diaries" were a forgery . ▪ Special marks on the paper are intended to deter forgery . ▪ The painting, believed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of forging metal into shape. 2 The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgery \For"ger*y\, n.; pl. Forgeries . [Cf. F. forgerie.] The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. --Milton. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making ...
Usage examples of forgery.
And most of the inhabitants of the Leather Lane area were involved, at least peripherally, in fencing stolen goods, a little forgery, of documents if not of money, in pickpocketing, burglary, cardsharping and a dozen other illegal pursuits.
The Claudian family had been particularly active, I noticed, in these forgeries.
Both the forgery and the encipherment in the correct key seem to be the work of Phelippes.
Peter Hargrave who fired me for forgery and insubordination, and Stuart, I HAVE NO JOB!
A few pages are given to the study of inks, and a part thereof is devoted to the researches of Carre, Hager, Baudrimont, Tarry, Chevallier and Lassaigne, to determine suspected forgeries.
Von Pilsen and his party should see him, and know that this last forgery no less than the others had succeeded in duping him into a punctual observance of the appointment, Mr.
Did he mean the forgeries, or was he simply another critic who thought the whole concept of the Plums was bogus?
I loved painting the furniture and the Scarlets, even the forgeries I was doing were more interesting than people.
Defeated incumbent Joe Carollo and the newly chosen mayor, Xavier Suarez, are battling over the mishandling and forgery of absentee ballots, which resulted in at least one verified dead person, Manuel Yip, casting a vote.
Usually when ballots of long-dead residents turn up, forgery is the presumed explanation.
Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.
As I went away I asked an official why he had been imprisoned, and was told it was for forgery, and that he would have been hanged if it had not been for a legal flaw.
On the other hand, the farmer ought to win unless it can be shewn that the receipts signed by Torriano are forgeries.
In other words, she declares that the signatures to these documents are forgeries.
The possibility of such forgeries is now very slight indeed, but vitiates early collections.