The difference between Fraud and Imposition

When used as nouns, fraud means the crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics, whereas imposition means the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

Fraud is also verb with the meaning: to defraud.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fraud and Imposition

  1. Fraud as a noun (law):

    The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

  2. Fraud as a noun:

    Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

  3. Fraud as a noun:

    The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

  4. Fraud as a noun:

    A person who performs any such trick.

  5. Fraud as a noun (obsolete):

    A trap or snare.

  1. Fraud as a verb (obsolete):

    To defraud

  1. Imposition as a noun:

    The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

  2. Imposition as a noun:

    That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.

  3. Imposition as a noun:

    An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.

  4. Imposition as a noun (printing):

    Arrangement of a printed product's pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.

  5. Imposition as a noun (religion):

    A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.

  6. Imposition as a noun (UK):

    A task imposed on a student as punishment.

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