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forgery Definition

for·gery (fôrjər ē)

noun pl. -·ger·ies

  1. the act or legal offense of imitating or counterfeiting documents, signatures, works of art, etc. to deceive
  2. anything forged
  3. Archaic invention

forgery Synonyms

forgery

n.

imitation, copy, imposture, cheat, counterfeit, fake, fabrication, sham, imposition, fraud, hoax, falsification, reproduction, phony*.

Antonyms original*, real thing, authentic work.

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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