committed fraud

collocation in English

meaningsofcommittedandfraud

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committed
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɪt.ɪd/us
/kəˈmɪt̬.ɪd/
loyal and willing to give your time and energy to something that you ...
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fraud
noun
uk
/frɔːd/us
/frɑːd/
the crime of getting money by ...
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(Definition ofcommittedandfraudfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommitted fraud

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We are giving local authorities new powers to stop housing benefit getting paid directly to landlords who havecommittedfraud.
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Such a differential surely justifies targeting those who havecommittedfraudin the past.
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Indeed, any director who gets himself into a position where he hascommittedfraudor any other offence is liable to be prosecuted.
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I agree that only a trickle of war pensioners havecommittedfraud, none of which has been sanctioned.
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That leaves behind devastation and misery for those companies or people against whom he hascommittedfraud.
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There is no other penalty, unless he hascommittedfraud.
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In my view, those able-bodied people who have used the badges to their own advantage havecommittedfraud.
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But if people who have twicecommittedfraudhave a known skill and are then deprived of a means of subsistence, we know what they will do next.
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Quite rightly, if a councillor is found to havecommittedfraudor wasted council money, he or she will be surcharged, or will be subject to criminal proceedings.
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We need reasonable grounds to believe that he or she hascommittedfraudeither now or in the past, or, following my undertaking, intends to commit fraud.
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Some co-operative leaders hadcommittedfraud, while others had sold out their communitys resources to vested interests.
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And if he puts down no, he has justcommittedfraud.
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Sophiacommittedfraudto finance her operation and hormone therapy.
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If a bank could not redeem its bank notes for money (gold or silver), the bank hadcommittedfraudand was subject to prosecution.
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Common grounds for obtaining a prejudgment writ of attachment are that a defendant hascommittedfraud or that a defendant is prepared to hide assets from a court.
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