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counterfeiting

noun/ˈkaʊntəfɪtɪŋ/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The manufacture or sale of imitation goods bearing a mark identical to a registered one, to deceive buyers.

Customs seized the container after detecting large-scale counterfeiting of the branded trainers.

Similar: faking

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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