| 单词 | identity thief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasidentity thief identity thief n. (a) a person who pretends to be someone else, an impostor (rare); (b) a person who commits identity theft (identity theft n.). ΚΠ 1982 Newsweek 21 June 75/1 Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.,..masterful identity thief who was the inspiration for the 1960 film ‘The Great Impostor’... While masquerading as a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, Demara performed several successful operations. He also pretended to be a Trappist monk, a prison warden, a college dean and a zoology student. 1984 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 45 187 Demara became famous in his own right as an ‘identity thief’. 1994 San Diego Daily Transcript (Nexis) 3 Nov. a1 Surfing Internet provides new frontiers for identity thieves. 2005 R. J. Sawyer Mindscan Prol. 12 ‘Presenting a false ID card is a major offense.’ ‘It's a major offense if you're a terrorist or an identity thief,’ I said, looking across the wide teak desk at him. < as lemmas |
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