forgery
forgery
Definition
for·gery (fôr′jər ē)
noun pl. -·ger·ies
- the act or legal offense of imitating or counterfeiting documents, signatures, works of art, etc. to deceive
- anything forged
- Archaic invention
forgery
Synonyms
forgery
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Antonyms
forgery
Law Definition
n
A false banknote, document,
work of art, or other imitation of a thing of value, created to be passed off
as real; the act of creating such an object.
forgery
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- document: He was found guilty of fraudulently evading £ 200m in tax and forgery of documents.
Converse of object
- detect: To detect forgeries go through this checklist: Compare it to samples known to be authentic.
- commit: Anyone who commits forgery in that context is guilty of a criminal offense.
- prevent: The attempts to prevent forgery from a skilled engraver were certainly not on the scale of today's complex designs.
- sell: If a seller is consciously selling forgeries he will feel no shame also issuing bogus certificates.
- include: There were other problems with the letter, including an unsuccessful forgery of the president's signature.
- make: Can't they even try to make a decent forgery?
Adjective modifier
- deliberate: There is a specific provision to protect the buyer if the object turns out to be counterfeit, a deliberate modern forgery.
- literary: Scotland's Homer comes back into literary fold The Scotsman Tuesday 1 February 2005 IT WAS one of the world's greatest literary forgeries.
- obvious: For instance, he admitted that the Gospel of Barnabas is an obvious forgery.
- late: Many accused Daniel of being a late forgery and ignorant of the facts.
- such: Nazi documents have been copied professionally for years; why, then, such clumsy forgeries?
- clumsy: Nazi documents have been copied professionally for years; why, then, such clumsy forgeries?
Modifies a noun
- charge: Green went to trial on the forgery charges, and was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, which he served in Brixton.
- case: He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.
Noun used with modifier
- century: This has lead many commentators to the conclusion that the so called prophesy is nothing more than an elaborate 14th century forgery.
- year: Three years forgeries blue moon title a pots line.
- art: Arson, murder, art forgery, con artists, you name it, you got it.
- document: The local prosecutor is investigating the case of document forgery.
- check: However the greatest asset he had as a con man was not his check forgery skills but his plausible manner.
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