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verb (used with object)

to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.

to deceive; influence by fraud: He cheated us into believing him a hero.

to elude; deprive of something expected: He cheated the law by suicide.

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verb (used without object)

to practice fraud or deceit: She cheats without regrets.

to violate rules or regulations: He cheats at cards.

to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers.

Informal. to be sexually unfaithful (often followed by on): Her husband knew she had been cheating all along. He cheated on his wife.

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noun

a person who acts dishonestly, deceives, or defrauds: He is a cheat and a liar.

a fraud; swindle; deception: The game was a cheat.

10.

Law. the fraudulent obtaining of another's property by a pretense or trick.

11.

an impostor: The man who passed as an earl was a cheat.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English chet (noun) (aphetic for achet, variant of eschet escheat); cheten to escheat, derivative of chet (noun)

Related forms

cheat·a·ble, adjective

cheat·ing·ly, adverb

out·cheat, verb (used with object)

un·cheat·ed, adjective

un·cheat·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. mislead, dupe, delude; gull, con; hoax, fool. Cheat, deceive, trick, victimize refer to the use of fraud or artifice deliberately to hoodwink or obtain an unfair advantage over someone. Cheat implies conducting matters fraudulently, especially for profit to oneself: to cheat at cards. Deceive suggests deliberately misleading or deluding, to produce misunderstanding or to prevent someone from knowing the truth: to deceive one's parents. To trick is to deceive by a stratagem, often of a petty, crafty, or dishonorable kind: to trick someone into signing a note. To victimize is to make a victim of; the emotional connotation makes the cheating, deception, or trickery seem particularly dastardly: to victimize a blind man. 8. swindler, trickster, sharper, dodger, charlatan, fraud, fake, phony, mountebank. 9. imposture, artifice, trick, hoax.

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Example Sentences

With so much riding on the results of standardized testing, the state is about to adopt new measures to protect against cheating.

Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem.

Despite recent efforts to create a culture of ethics on business school campuses, cheating remains all too common.

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With so much riding on the results of standardized testing, the state is about to adopt new measures to protect against cheating.

Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem.

Despite recent efforts to create a culture of ethics on business school campuses, cheating remains all too common.

The prospect of cheating death raises a host of philosophical, moral, and religious questions.

Polishing your self-image with counterfeit goods may lead to lying, cheating and cynicism.

The students are sophisticated in music and were aware he was cheating them, and walked out without applause.

Somebody started cheating a little bit, and then it became more and more a part of the social norm.

Cheating is cheating, and its wrongness is not mitigated by how easy it might be.

Anyone that has taught undergrads knows how capable they are at cheating.

The organisation, which will retain complete operational control over the second round, still denies the scale of cheating.

Also the gene-therapy viruses that might lend themselves to cheating don't work as easily as had been hoped.

What if an emerging economy was cheating and still using these banned substances.

I've been cheating on you with easy catches and have brought home some unsavory characters.

Evolution appears to have hard-wired men to suspect their lovers of cheating.

Forensic economists comb through data to look for patterns of cheating that otherwise go unnoticed.

Meanwhile, a pregnant tiger gets caught up in a cheating scandal and her mate is left wondering who the father is.

Another third were told the player next to them was caught on camera cheating.

The online auction house suspends a user accused of cheating its customers.

Yes, cheating is rampant, and for teachers the game of catch-up never stops.

In fact cheating strangers is often viewed as a sign of acute business skills.

In survival situations, there's no such thing as cheating.

They think this is really bad because it is cheating.

Some universities are using sophisticated techniques to deter students from cheating and to catch cheaters in the act.

There are disputes about the rules and accusations of cheating.

Overnight his name had become an insult, a by-word for cheating.

Electronic cheating is all to real, has been done in the past, and will be done in the future unless this is addressed.

Lost in the kerfuffle is the fact that cheating in football is as traditional as the coin toss.

I've often thought we've been cheating natural selection.

Theories vary about why more people appear to be cheating.

Cheating the standard protein tests is easy, but industry hesitates on alternatives.

For example, wearing a hair piece vs cheating on one's spouse.

The point here is that there was no punishment for cheating.

The task is thankless: anti-doping agencies thwart one cheating strategy, only for another to emerge.

In layman s terms, the manufacturer is miss something basic, is screwing-up if not deliberately cheating.

Someone is successfully cheating the system if the scientists report such a high illegal catch rate.

Unfortunately, when there are high stakes some will resort to cheating.

Recent studies of primate fairness seem to contradict one another-unless you consider who exactly is cheating whom.

Historically, when income tax rates fall, so does tax cheating.

Experts say professors need savvy to prevent cheating in on-line courses.

I've sort of been cheating on you and writing a bunch of gardening stuff on our other garden blog.

The biggest determinant of cheating on exams is not the values that students are exposed to at home, but peer norms at school.

But you have no idea how deeply this kind of cheating penetrates the academic system, much less how to stop.

Though the low-power people were probably cheating a bit.

Nobody's cheating here: maybe fudging some, but mostly trying to keep to the management plan.

And while the tools are leading to improved cheating detection, the problem of plagiarism isn't going away.

Just over half admit to cheating in one way or another using their devices.

Football fans have been encouraged to call a police hotline or send an e-mail to the task-force if they suspect cheating.

Many readers disagree, accusing him of enabling cheating and of.

It should also take place in a public ceremony watched by other men, to avoid cheating or free-riding.

Amid all the frenzy about getting into college, one subject is often ignored: cheating.

We have entered a new realm, and if the definition of knowledge has changed, then so must the definition of cheating.

However, the new system could solve some old problems, by exposing cheating employers.

Some people argue that chemical cognition-enhancement is a form of cheating.

Cheating and a lack of respect for academic integrity are epidemic.

Cheating the government out of tax revenue was seen as an honorable activity.

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Nor is public exposure of widespread cheating likely to burnish a university's reputation.

Critics claim that online courses are inferior to traditional courses because they are supposedly more susceptible to cheating.

One problem is that there is simply too much cheating in the open ocean.

Say a large economy with a track record of cheating with banned substances.

Although there is a large body of research dealing with cheating in face-to-face courses.

In particular when false claims lead to huge sums of public spending or cheating gullible shareholders.

And in cheating they eat a modest amount of carbohydrate.

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Word Origin & History

cheat

late 14c., aphetic of O.Fr. escheat, legal term for revision of property to state when owner dies without heirs, lit. "that which falls to one," pp. of escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," from V.L. *excadere "to fall away," from L. ex- "out" + cadere "to fall" (see

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case (1)). Meaning evolved through "confiscate" (mid-15c.) to "deprive unfairly" (1590). To cheat on (someone) "be sexually unfaithful" first recorded 1934.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

cheating

A number of high-profile instances involving plagiarism and resume padding that were reported in 2001 continued to capture headlines in 2002 and to bring increased scrutiny to the methodology of cheating. Though historian Doris Kearns Goodwin maintained that the cribbing in her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987) was unintentional, her reputation was severely damaged, and in June she resigned her post on the Pulitzer Prize board. Fellow historian Stephen Ambrose apologized in January for having failed to acknowledge his source material in at least six books. (See Obituaries.) After Piper (Kan.) High School teacher Christine Pelton accused some students of having taken material from the Internet for a botany project, gave them all failing grades in 2001, and had her decision overruled by the school board in December, she resigned in February 2002; other teachers were inspired to follow suit as well, and the handling of the incident sparked a national uproar. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis lost his credibility and was suspended in 2001 for one year from teaching at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., after it became known that he had fabricated stories about military exploits in Vietnam and subsequent activity in the peace and civil rights movements. Football coach George O'Leary lost his dream job in 2002 at the University of Notre Dame a few days after signing his contract when "inaccuracies" sprang up in his resume.

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