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function |
Verb
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perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function |
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function |
Verb
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perform as expected when applied |
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function |
Verb
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serve a purpose, role, or function |
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feigning |
Noun
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the act of giving a false appearance |
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feigning |
Noun
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pretending with intention to deceive |
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falsehood |
Noun
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the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting |
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falsehood |
Noun
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a false statement |
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four flush |
Noun
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the act of bluffing in poker |
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frame-up |
Noun
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an act that incriminates someone on a false charge |
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felony |
Noun
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a serious crime (such as murder or arson) |
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forgery |
Noun
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criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud |
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forgery |
Noun
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a copy that is represented as the original |
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fabrication |
Noun
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the deliberate act of deviating from the truth |
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fabrication |
Noun
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the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) |
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fabrication |
Noun
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the act of making something (a product) from raw materials |
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fabrication |
Noun
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writing in a fictional form |
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fabrication |
Noun
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a deliberately false or improbable account |
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foul play |
Noun
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unfair or dishonest behavior, especially involving violence |
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fibbing |
Noun
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a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear |
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fakery |
Noun
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the act of faking (or the product of faking) |
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fraud |
Noun
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something intended to deceive |
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fraud |
Noun
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intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
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fraud |
Noun
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a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
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fraudulence |
Noun
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something intended to deceive |
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fraudulence |
Noun
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the quality of being fraudulent |
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fraudulence |
Noun
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a fraudulent or duplicitous representation |
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fraudulent scheme |
Noun
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an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
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friendly takeover |
Noun
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a takeover that is welcomed by the management of the target company |
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fraud in fact |
Noun
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actual deceit |
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foreign direct investment |
Noun
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a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
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foreign direct investment |
Noun
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investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
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fraud in law |
Noun
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fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent |
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fraud in the factum |
Noun
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fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed |
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forlorn hope |
Noun
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a hopeless or desperate enterprise |
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fraud in the inducement |
Noun
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fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment |
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flimflam |
Noun
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a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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field trial |
Noun
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a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving |
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field trial |
Noun
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a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used |
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field trial |
Noun
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a contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving |
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false pretense |
Noun
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(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation |
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false pretence |
Noun
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(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation |
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foray |
Noun
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an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) |
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foray |
Noun
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a sudden short attack |
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foray |
Verb
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briefly enter enemy territory |
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foray |
Verb
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steal goods |
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fire watching |
Noun
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(during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
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federalization |
Noun
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the act of being put under federal control |
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federalization |
Noun
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the state of being under federal control |
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federalisation |
Noun
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the act of being put under federal control |
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federalisation |
Noun
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the state of being under federal control |