to counterfeit
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6.9
- verb
- /ˈkaʊntərˌfɪt/
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falsificar
- And so handbags are a great product to counterfeit and get massive profit from for people with no ethics.
In fact, this person is a worse wrongdoer than those who counterfeit the coinage.
- In fact, this person is a worse wrongdoer than those who counterfeit the coinage.
- He makes like tickets that are hard to hard to counterfeit, you know, for like the Super Bowl, stuff like that.
- And so handbags are a great product to counterfeit and get massive profit from for people with no ethics.
- Uggs are copied and counterfeited here again like crazy, because they can't really protect the name and that's a serious issue on the counterfeited market.
Examples
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Today, we use modern-day currency and coins as money because they are handy, nonperishable, easy to count, and difficult to counterfeit.
Academic text (1994) -
The criminals tried to counterfeit the new banknotes, hoping to sell them for a profit.
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Why don't you just counterfeit the money yourself?
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Just don't ask him to counterfeit the British pound.
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That must have made early punch cutting relatively easy because the printed letters were being used to counterfeit handwritten documents.
Academic text (2005) -
They were often counterfeiting IDs to get in the door.
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They cannot command 'armies', but they can counterfeit money to loan to governments who want to conscript armies.
Blog text (6) -
In the Bank of North America's charter, the Continental Congress explicitly recommended that states create laws "making it a felony without benefit of clergy for any person to counterfeit bank notes or to pass such notes, knowing them to be counterfeit."
Academic text (2016) -
It's illegal to counterfeit documents such as passports or driver's licenses.
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Authorities are cracking down on those who counterfeit currency to protect the economy.
Synonyms
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4.2
To make or change something to trick people
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7.1
To make a fake copy of a document or signature to deceive people
Antonyms
- Specialized
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6.7
Show that something is real or that a person is who they say they are
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Counterfeit comes from old parts counter- 'against' and -feit 'made', so to counterfeit something is to 'make against' the original — to make a fake in order to deceive people.