Scam - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |skæm|  American pronunciation of the word scam
Brit.  |skæm|  British pronunciation of the word scam

noun

- a fraudulent business scheme (syn: cozenage)

verb

- deprive of by deceit (syn: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, mulct, nobble, rook, swindle, victimize)

Extra examples

She and her boyfriend were involved in a scam to get $5 million from the company.

She was the victim of an insurance scam.

He got involved in a credit card scam.

Undercover investigators exposed the scam.

...in an insurance scam, the slumlord hired a torch to burn the tenement down...

...she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares...

...an Internet newbie who's the perfect patsy for a cyber scam...

Word forms

noun
singular: scam
plural: scams
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