What's the difference between forger and forgery?

Forger


Definition:

  • (n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
  • (n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
  • (2) Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports for as little as $250, days after it emerged that one of the Paris bombers may have entered Europe using false Syrian paperwork.
  • (3) In its early days the Bank's biggest security challenge was forgers altering the value of a note, for instance from £10 to £20, rather than attempting to replicate the note itself.
  • (4) A second forger in Duhok says he can procure a passport, allegedly with the help of a Syrian embassy official, within four days – for a premium price of $2,500.
  • (5) Although the forgers' methods vary, there are a few common mistakes that should ring alarm bells.
  • (6) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
  • (7) Wild patterns dance, perspective shifts, all to fool the forger.
  • (8) He was, though, a phrasemaker - as well as an idea-forger - of brilliance, and many of his terms, such as "the original position" and "veil of ignorance", have become part of the language.
  • (9) He has nearly 40 years experience as a security expert for US law enforcement agencies, having switched sides when he was eventually caught by the FBI after spending half his teenage years on the run as a confidence trickster, imposter, cheque forger and escape artist in the 1960s.
  • (10) It is very easy.” Concern over burgeoning trade in fake and stolen Syrian passports Read more The revelations came as Serbian officials claimed that as many as eight asylum seekers entered Europe this year with similar passport details as ”Ahmad Almohammad”, the suspected pseudonym of one of the Paris suspects, leading to suspicions that all of them might have bought passports from the same forger in the Middle East.

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.

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