(adv.) Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
(adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
(adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
(n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
(n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
(n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
(v. t.) To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
(v. t.) To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
(v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
(v. i.) To make counterfeits.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(2) The lobbying firms' claims about counterfeiting have been roundly rejected by the Trading Standards Institute, which claims that tobacco products are already easy to counterfeit and that it is not convinced by arguments that suggest the introduction of plain packaging will lead to an increase in counterfeiting.
(3) Many arrive on donkeys from Turkey, but there is no way of knowing which products are counterfeit and which are real.
(4) The first new £1 coin since 1983 is an attempt to end counterfeiting.
(5) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
(6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
(7) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(8) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(9) She suggested that the US authorities were guilty either of “a technically incompetent misinterpretation of the facts” or had been fooled by a “counterfeit in order to frame my company”.
(10) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(11) Yahoo plan Last month Alibaba said it had removed 90m listings for goods that might have infringed trademarks and had spent $161m in the past two years on blocking counterfeit goods and improving consumer protection.
(12) An anti-counterfeiting group said on Friday it was suspending Alibaba’s membership following an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese e-commerce giant as the world’s largest marketplace for fakes .
(13) The act, which became effective on July 21, 1988, is intended to reduce public health risks from adulterated, misbranded, and counterfeit drug products that enter the marketplace through drug diversion.
(14) Hill's lawyer complains that as a result the prisoner is left "with no means for determining whether the drugs for his lethal injection are safe and will reliably perform their function, or if they are tainted, counterfeited, expired or compromised in some other way."
(15) ONdigital eventually ceased trading amid a wave of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.
(16) , in which cartoon eastern European gangsters drool over the financial possibilities of regulation – although anti-counterfeiting measures can easily be incorporated into plain packets.
(17) "Counterfeit £1 coins are not genuine currency and no value can therefore be given for them," says the Mint.
(18) But, there's no doubt counterfeit coins and notes can seriously damage small businesses.
(19) It is putting out a call for members to help support the fight against Drip, pushing its participation in the defeat of the " snoopers' charter " and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) as evidence of what can be accomplished.
(20) While the Royal Mint assures us that replacing one coin with another is not as expensive as we might think, this may be because much of the additional bill – £45m as someone estimated on Radio 4's Today programme (which eerily recalls the number of counterfeit pounds thought to be in circulation) – will, it seems, be paid by business, and by us.
Forgery
Definition:
(n.) The act of forging metal into shape.
(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., 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; as, the forgery of a bond.
(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you take a forgery to a bank will they give you a real one in return?
(2) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(3) The French financial prosecutor is looking into whether “the calculations constitute forgeries made to justify, after the fact, the wages that were paid”, Le Monde reported .
(4) Key to the case against O’Neill is a letter, allegedly from the prime minister to senior ministers, which suggested O’Neill authorised the payments, but the prime minister dismissed it as a forgery.
(5) The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.
(6) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(7) But the Bangkok Post's interview with an unnamed DSI agent quoted him as saying the country was also attractive because it is relatively easy to enter and leave; "you can negotiate with some law enforcement people"; and – importantly – some local officials have not tended to see the forgery of foreign (as opposed to Thai) passports as a particularly serious offence.
(8) Once the KGB would have spent months planting well-made forgeries.
(9) In contrast to the FBI's aggressive pursuit of Brown, no probe of the Team Themis project was launched – despite a call from 17 US House representatives to investigate a possible conspiracy to violate federal laws, including forgery, mail and wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
(10) Moran faces 21 charges: 15 of false accounting, contrary to the Theft Act 1968, and six of forgery, in which it is alleged she submitted false invoices.
(11) "There was forgery and dishonest concealment of material facts.
(12) There is not the slightest bit of forgery in this case,” he said.
(13) The scheme – backed by Italy FA head Carlo Tavecchio, convicted five times since 1970 for forgery, tax evasion and abuse of office – aims to champion “all acts of honesty”.
(14) The Falkirk report arrives at eight conclusions in its executive summary, leaked to the press and widely interpreted as damning proof of forgery, bullying and "machine politics" by Unite , the union.
(15) Williams, a Nationals MP, expressed his support for a further inquiry, saying he had received evidence of fraud, wrongdoing and forgery.
(16) On Monday evening it emerged that a letter from the taskforce chief, Sam Koim, to the police commissioner, leaked to SBS News , claimed new evidence has emerged – including a forensic analysis of a letter previously dismissed as a forgery by O’Neill – strengthening the case against the prime minister.
(17) Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond.
(18) Also among the dead were an Isis executioner and a forgery specialist.
(19) A Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings, less than a week after French authorities alleged that a terrorist used a similar forgery to enter the Greek island of Leros, before taking part in an attack on the Stade de France in Paris.
(20) That’s fair enough, but you might think they practice some assumption of innocence until proven guilty of passport forgery.