Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of forging something, especially the unlawful act of counterfeiting a document or object for the purposes of fraud or deception.
- noun Something that has been forged, especially a document that has been copied or remade to look like the original.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of forging or working metal into shape.
- noun Invention; devising.
- noun The act of fabricating or producing falsely; the making of a thing in imitation of another thing, as a legal document, commercial paper or coin, a literary production, a work of art, a natural object, etc., with a view to deceive, mislead, or defraud; specifically, the act of fraudulently making, counterfeiting, or altering any record, instrument, register, note, or the like, to the prejudice of the right of another: as, the forgery of a check or a bond.
- noun That which is forged, fabricated, falsely or fraudulently devised, or counterfeited; any instrument which fraudulently purports to be that which it is not.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of forging metal into shape.
- noun The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
- noun That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
forging metal intoshape . - noun The act of forging,
fabricating , orproducing falsely ; especially the crime offraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. - noun That which is
forged ,fabricated , falselydevised orcounterfeited . - noun archaic An
invention , creation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
- noun a copy that is represented as the original
Etymologies
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Examples
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IMO TCP RST forgery is only a good idea for actual security-related blockages.
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IMO TCP RST forgery is only a good idea for actual security-related blockages.
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His talent for forgery is exploited by a group of unscrupulous art critics and businessmen who hope to profit by passing his works off as original old masters.
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I didn't expect it would also provide training in forgery, but it did.
Introduction 2003
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I learned a few valuable lessons working on that show: a facsimile intends to deceive legally, an unacknowledged facsimile can easily become a forgery, and an undetected forgery is an original.
Introduction 2003
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But it is certainly the case that the word forgery was whispered by more than one pair of lips.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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Could they not see at once the crude hand of a novice in that composition they called a forgery?
Villette 2003
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Then, again, the word forgery began to look black in our vocabulary.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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Martian thinks this is polite language, but the word forgery is much more concise and to the point, and he finds an excellent example of this described by Joseph McCabe in "The Forgery of the Old Testament."
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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But it is certainly the case that the word forgery was whispered by more than one pair of lips.
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848
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