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counterfeit goods

noun

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Goods bearing a mark identical to a registered trade mark without authorisation, designed to deceive.

Customs seized a container of counterfeit goods bearing our client's logo.

Similar: fakes

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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