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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forger
noun
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▪ After lengthy legal proceedings the forged will was declared void in 1989 and the forgers duly punished.
▪ If the forger tries to write quickly and naturally he loses accuracy.
▪ Instead, they got Richards to acknowledge that a motivated forger with advanced technology could fool even veteran photo analysts.
▪ Name of a magnificent name, he was a forger and a beautiful one.
▪ Perhaps the most notorious was a forger.
▪ Then, too, the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper.
▪ They're all forgeries of course, nearly all done by the Master forger Tom Keating.
▪ They were done by that forger Elmyr de Hory who lived on Ibiza.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forger

Forger \For"ger\, n.[Cf. F. forgeur metal worker, L. fabricator artificer. See Forge, n. & v. t., and cf. Fabricator.] One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forger

late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname), "a maker, a smith," agent noun from forge (v.). Meaning "a counterfeiter, one who makes by false imitation" is from early 15c. In 15c. also "a maker of (coin) money." Another Middle English word for "a forger" was falsarie (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
forger

n. 1 Person who falsifies documents with intent to defraud, eg, to create a false will. 2 Person who forges metals.

WordNet
forger
  1. n. someone who operates a forge

  2. someone who makes copies illegally [syn: counterfeiter]

Usage examples of "forger".

But in the dim light Kane recognized immediately the kinship of this monolithic crystal to the bloodstone ring upon his forger.

Highwaymen and murderers, forgers and sneaksmen, the Sydney Ducks had someone of experience in every aspect of the roughest criminal trade.

The author concluded his paper with a few remarks on copying inks and indelible inks, showing that a good copying ink has yet to be sought for, and that indelible inks, which will resist the pencilings and washings of the chemist and the forger, need never be looked for.

Natalya still insisted that the best forger of identity documents known to the revolution was to be found in Nizhni Novgorod.

He accompanied this restitution with a most severe reprimand, during which Colbert contented himself with examining, feeling, even smelling, as it were, the paper, the characters, and the signature, neither more nor less than if he had to deal with the greatest forger in the kingdom.

I had no choice in the matter, so I paid the five hundred florins, but I did not get back the bill, and the man told me I could not have it unless I told the police the name of the person from whom I got it, as, in the interests of commerce, the forger must be prosecuted.

Of course, I know that there are such things as forgers, even on our world.

So they pay us a fortune, and pay the forgers even more for phony papers, just to live in some uptime dump full of rats.

Thus he became the patron of anchor forgers, and thence of smiths in general.

Elsewhere prowled the ones the war had elevated: uniformed soldiers, reclamation and salvage experts, document forgers, scavengers, scammers, relief flyers, and the rest.

Roman vineyards, as well as the counterfeits of forgers, have served to enrich the princely and papal collections with his image.

He then continued, speaking with calm precision, to point out the anachronisms and contradictions in the count's books (which made his client a debtor), and stated that his client was in a position to prosecute the two forgers who had been employed to compass the ruin of an honest family, whose only crime was poverty.

That person, I believe, is the one who suffered from an aneurism of the heart, the writer, or rather the forger, of the two documents I have shown, by one of which he or she was to profit greatly by the death of Mr.

Silence held her breath again, hoping the supercargo's memory had been accurate, and that Balthasar's forger was as good as the Delian had claimed.

The lumbering young man in Chicago had made himself into the best forger and disguiser in the world, and Chloe decided that the three of them alone were the epitomes of his handiwork.