| 词组 | cheat |
| 释义 | cheat /tʃiːt/ verb 1. to trick or deceive someone so that they do not get or keep something they have a right to have: Illegal workers are often cheated by employers. She cheated her aged aunt out of all her money.THESAURUS: cheat con informal to get money from someone by telling them lies: They conned her into spending thousands of pounds on useless equipment. | He conned money out of the public by pretending to collect for charity. swindle to get money from a person or organization by cheating them in a clever way: The painting has been stolen and the art gallery has been swindled out of a large sum of money. | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds was jailed for four years. defraud to commit the crime of getting money from an organization by deceiving them: He admitted attempting to defraud his former employer of $1 million. | Johnson is accused of conspiring to defraud the taxman out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. do sb out of sth informal especially BrE to dishonestly stop someone from getting or keeping something, especially something they have a right to have: They’ve done me out of three weeks wages!2. to behave dishonestly in a game, test etc, so that you can win, pass, or get advantages for yourselfprepositionscheat in a test/exam BrE cheat on a test/exam AmE If you cheat in the test, you will be severely punished.phrasesbe/get caught cheating More than 4,000 teenagers were caught cheating in exams last year. |
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