forgery

[ fawr-juh-ree, fohr- ]
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noun,plural for·ger·ies.
  1. the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.

  2. the production of a spurious work that is claimed to be genuine, as a coin, a painting, or the like.

  1. something, as a coin, a work of art, or a writing, produced by forgery.

  2. an act of producing something forged.

  3. Archaic. invention; artifice.

Origin of forgery

1
First recorded in 1565–75; forge1 + -ery

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How to use forgery in a sentence

  • You should also look up the history of the Ireland forgeries, unless, as is very probable, Tolstoy has anticipated you in this.

  • Besides the evidence from style, some of the dates they contain are quite sufficient to condemn them as clumsy forgeries.

  • They seemed forgeries, impudent forgeries of the handwriting that had first written the word Man on the earth.

    The Beach of Dreams | H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • When brought before Justice Fielding, he was there known to be the person charged with forgeries upon the bank at Darlington.

  • There were indictments almost without number for frauds, embezzlements and forgeries; the travail of reconstruction.

    The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington

British Dictionary definitions for forgery

forgery

/ (ˈfɔːdʒərɪ) /


nounplural -geries
  1. the act of reproducing something for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose

  2. something forged, such as a work of art or an antique

  1. criminal law

    • the false making or altering of any document, such as a cheque or character reference (and including a postage stamp), or any tape or disc on which information is stored, intending that anyone shall accept it as genuine and so act to his or another's prejudice

    • something forged

  2. criminal law the counterfeiting of a seal or die with intention to defraud

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