deliberate fraud

collocation in English

meaningsofdeliberateandfraud

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deliberate
adjective
uk
/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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fraud
noun
uk
/frɔːd/us
/frɑːd/
the crime of getting money by ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandfraudfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In actual practice, strategies can be both 'planned' and opportunistic, or include adeliberatefraud.
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In this context irregularities includes all overpayments whether as a result of error, negligence ordeliberatefraud.
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In this context, irregularities include all overpayments whether as a result of error, negligence ordeliberatefraud.
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Nor does that take account of the cases ofdeliberatefraud—people with pre-existing health conditions who come here only because the treatment is free.
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Organised,deliberatefraudby landlords is almost certainly more significant than tenant-claimant fraud.
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In my constituent's case it seems likely that the way in which it was lost was bydeliberatefraud.
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That kind of case will be far more common than the case in which there isdeliberatefraud.
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There is evidence thatdeliberatefraudwas being exercised which is not easily detected by normal processes.
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I agree with the report that criminal proceedings should be kept for only the worst and most obvious cases ofdeliberatefraud.
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I am not saying for a moment that there was conscious anddeliberatefraudin that case—certainly not.
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In this context, irregularities includes all overpayments either as a result of error, negligence ordeliberatefraud.
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What the people have a right to expect, however, is protection againstdeliberatefraudand swindle.
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There ought to be an escape from it for a person who through nodeliberatefraudor culpable negligence fails to give the notice.
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Equally, however, they demand that no medium shall be punished unless he or she has been proved guilty ofdeliberatefraud.
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For example, an authority could refuse to make a direct payment to a landlord who had a record of obtaining benefit bydeliberatefraud.
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They were, therefore, returned on adeliberatefraud.
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There will always be a problem in tacklingdeliberatefraud.
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Obviously what we are endeavouring to secure here is that there should be nodeliberatefraudimposed on the public.
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In other cases there were minor deficiencies of acreage, but we did not think that there was any question ofdeliberatefraud.
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In the social conditions existing in this country before this century these measures were doubtless quite effective, except in cases of the mostdeliberatefraud.
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