rort
/rɔːt
/noun informal
1Australian /NZ A fraudulent or dishonest act or practice: a tax rort...
- What MPs have done is legislate a tax rort for themselves.
- Today I've decided to take a look at some of these rip-offs and rorts, and to invite readers to submit their own observations and opinions by way of the forums.
- They see political entitlements with too many rorts and too much feather-bedding.
2Australian dated A wild party.They seem to be able to find money to waste on rorts and subsidising big business but yet we still have waiting lists in hospitals.
verb [no object] Australian /NZ
1Engage in sharp practice.This was a club that cheated and rorted over a period of years and they deserved everything they got and, arguably, quite some more....
- I am not entirely sure that politicians, as a class, are any worse than ever they were, but what is clear is that the opportunities they now have to rort are greater than ever they were.
1.1 [with object] Manipulate (a ballot or records) fraudulently; rig.He was disgraced three years ago for rorting the party books and only escaped prison on, as the PM would say, ‘a technicality‘.
1.2 [with object] Work (a system) to obtain the greatest benefit while remaining within the letter of the law.Senior politicians, rorting the system with inflated travel claims....
- If you do nothing productive you are a bludger, get something positive together then we are accused of rorting the system.
- He and his friends, family and mentors rorted the system.
Origin
1930s: back-formation from rorty.