swindle

  • 31swindle sheet — ☆ swindle sheet n. Slang EXPENSE ACCOUNT …

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  • 32Swindle (chess) — In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss.[1][2][3][4][5] It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly… …

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  • 33Swindle (Childrens' book) — Summary The book, Swindle, by Gordon Korman, is a fun and exciting adventure story of a boy named Griffin Bing, or as his friend, Ben Slovak calls him “The Man with the Plan.” Griffin and Ben has a sleepover at a doomed house that is scheduled to …

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  • 34swindle sheet — n. an expense account record sheet or book. □ I turned in my swindle sheet yesterday, and no one challenged the $400 for new shoes. □ The government makes it hard to put just anything on your swindle sheet these days …

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  • 35swindle sheet — noun slang : expense account * * * Slang. 1. an expense account. 2. a log sheet, as kept by a trucker, cab driver, hourly worker, or the like. [1945 50] * * * swindle sheet, U.S. Slang. an expense account: »To catch a few suspected swindle sheet… …

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  • 36swindle-sheet — swinˈdle sheet noun (facetious) An expense account • • • Main Entry: ↑swindle …

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  • 37swindle — I. verb (swindled; swindling) Etymology: back formation from swindler, from German Schwindler giddy person, from schwindeln to be dizzy, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of swintan to diminish, vanish; akin to Old English swindan to… …

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  • 38swindle — 1. verb /ˈswɪndəl/ a) to defraud (someone) The two men swindled the company out of $160,000. b) to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods …

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  • 39Swindle — This interesting and most unusual name, found widespread in Lancashire is most probably an English locational name from Swindale in Skelton, North Yorkshire, so called from the Old English pre seventh Century words swin , pig, wild boar, plus the …

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  • 40swindle — Synonyms and related words: abstract, abstraction, and, annex, annexation, appropriate, appropriation, bag, ballot box stuffing, bamboozle, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, boost, boosting, borrow, buffalo, bunco, burn, cardsharping,… …

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