Forgery

Quick meaning: Forgery is a noun meaning The act of forging metal into shape.

Meaning

The act of forging metal into shape.

More Meanings

1. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
3. (archaic) An invention, creation.

Example Sentences

the forgery of a bond

the forgery of horseshoes

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Word Forms

• forgeries

Synonyms for forgery

Depending on context, synonyms include counterfeit, fake, imitation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imitation, counterfeit, forging, scythe, rigging, piracy.

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