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forgery

noun/ˈfɔːdʒəri/

B1CEFR level
28/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The making of a false document or instrument with intent to deceive and cause it to be accepted as genuine.

The signatures on the will were shown by an expert to be a clumsy forgery.

Similar: falsification, counterfeiting

Topic: Criminal law 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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