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单词 swindler
释义
swindleswin‧dle1 /ˈswɪndl/ verb [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINswindle
Origin:
1700-1800 swindler ‘person who swindles’ (18-21 centuries), from German schwindler ‘someone confused or unbalanced’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
swindle
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyswindle
he, she, itswindles
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyswindled
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave swindled
he, she, ithas swindled
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad swindled
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill swindle
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have swindled
Continuous Form
PresentIam swindling
he, she, itis swindling
you, we, theyare swindling
PastI, he, she, itwas swindling
you, we, theywere swindling
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been swindling
he, she, ithas been swindling
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been swindling
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be swindling
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been swindling
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to swindle the insurance company he worked for.
  • Investors have been swindled out of millions of pounds.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And Fakhru will appreciate my method of operating because has not Fakhru on many occasions swindled me?
  • Forbes, too, ended up in prison for swindling the government over supplies to hospitals.
  • He swindled only himself and his unsuspecting family.
  • He used to swindle people out of their land.
  • Slaughter, Lieutenant, Captain Waters's accomplice in swindling the Tuggses.
  • The agent tried to swindle him out of his deposit and Marc's trying to sort it out.
  • When they were doing business and Fong knew he was being swindled, he had nothing but bald hatred for the Ismaili.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSto get money or possessions dishonestly from someone
to deceive someone so that they do not get or keep something they have a right to: · He used his charm to cheat the old lady out of everything he could get.· He’s afraid they’ll cheat him after he hands over the money.
informal to get money from someone by telling them lies: · They conned her into spending thousands of pounds on useless equipment.· He conned money out of the public by pretending to collect for charity.
to get money from a person or organization by cheating them in a clever way: · The painting has been stolen and the art gallery has been swindled out of a large sum of money.· A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds was jailed for four years.
to commit the crime of getting money from an organization by deceiving them: · He admitted attempting to defraud his former employer of $1 million.· Johnson is accused of conspiring to defraud the taxman of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
informal especially British English to dishonestly stop someone from getting or keeping something, especially something they have a right to have: · They’ve done me out of three weeks wages!
Longman Language Activatorto get money or possessions from someone dishonestly
· He doesn't trust car mechanics -- he thinks they're all trying to cheat him.cheat somebody out of something · She says she was cheated out of $10,000 she paid to a modeling agency.· Cohen claimed that criminals posing as salesmen cheat Americans out of billions of dollars each year.
to get money from a person or organization by cheating them, especially using clever and complicated methods: · He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to swindle the insurance company he worked for.swindle somebody out of something: · Investors have been swindled out of millions of pounds.
especially spoken to persuade someone to buy something or to give you money by telling them lies: · By the time she realized she had been conned, she had lost more than $3000.con somebody out of something: · The old lady was conned out of her life savings by a crooked insurance dealer.con something out of somebody: · A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around £20,000 out of desperate sick people.con somebody into doing something: · She was too embarrassed to admit that they had conned her into buying 100 acres of worthless land.
British informal to give false information or make dishonest changes to financial records, in order to get money or avoid paying money: · My boss thinks I've been fiddling my travel expenses.fiddle the books/fiddle the accounts (=change a company's financial records): · The company secretary has been fiddling the books for years.
to get money from a company or organization, especially a very large one, by deceiving it: · Trachtenberg is charged with attempting to defraud his business partner.defraud somebody (out) of something: · Between them they defrauded the company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
informal to get a lot of money from someone by tricking them: · She fleeced him for everything he had.· Authorities estimate at least 300 elderly couples were fleeced in the scheme.fleece somebody of something: · She estimates he fleeced her of about £50,000 by tricking her into buying fake antiques.
to get money or possessions from someone, by tricking or deceiving them: · Police are warning residents to be on their guard after two men tricked a pensioner out of several hundred pounds.· Megan was tricked out of her life savings by a smooth-talking handsome man who had promised to marry her.
especially British, informal to cheat someone by not giving them money that they deserve or that they are owed: · The way I see it, they've done me out of three weeks' wages.· She's convinced the sales assistant did her out of £15.
spoken use this to say that someone has been cheated but they do not realize it: · I hate to tell you this but you've been had. The antique clock you bought is a phoney.
someone who cheats
also cheater American · Don't pretend you can't afford to pay me that money back -- you're nothing but a cheat and a liar!· My grandmother thinks all car salesmen are cheats.· I'll never play cards with you again, you cheater!
spoken informal someone who gets money by cheating people or lying to them: · a handsome con-man who charms women into giving him money, then simply disappears from their lives· She gave $11,000 to two con artists who pretended to be bank officials.
someone who regularly cheats people or organizations to get money: · That firm is a bunch of swindlers. Don't pay them anything until the goods have been delivered and checked.· I wasn't going to let any kid of mine work among those swindlers on Wall Street.
to get money from someone by deceiving them SYN  cheatswindle somebody out of something a businessman who swindled investors out of millions of poundsswindler noun [countable]
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