Counterfeit

Definition: Counterfeit

Counterfeit

Adjective

1. Not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince".

Noun

1. A copy that is presented as the original.

Verb

1. Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; She forged a Green Card".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "counterfeit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Finance

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Synonyms: Counterfeit

Copy

Servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake;(deception); pasticcio.

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Mockery; (imitation); copy; counterfeit, sham, make-believe, forgery, fraud; lie; "a delusion a mockery and a snare", hollow mockery.

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Imitation

Plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit; (falsehood); celluloid.

Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.

Money

Counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (see falsehood).

Crosswords: Counterfeit

'Cause you're counterfeit I see (What About Us?; performing artist: Brandy)

The Counterfeit Killer (1968)

Counterfeit Lady (1936)

The Counterfeit Trail (1919)

Counterfeit (1919)

A Counterfeit Scent (1917)

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Books

• Counterfeit (reference)

• Counterfeit Lady (reference)

• Counterfeit Revival (reference)

• Counterfeit Son (reference)

• Counterfeit Spirituality in an Age of Anxiety (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Counterfeit (reference)

• The Counterfeit Traitor (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Counterfeit (reference)

• Counterfeit [EP] (reference)

• The Lost Album: Counterfeit Gelt (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Counterfeit Confederate notes publicly offered for sale in the City of Brotherly Love. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Its counterfeit of merit deceives men.

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Business

In addition, they help local agents expose counterfeit parts. (references)

These offices will enhance customer service and closely monitor market developments (especially assisting local dealers expose counterfeit products). (references)

Economic History

Senegal

Large quantities of counterfeit products from the sub-region are available in the country. (references)

Nigeria

The manufacture and sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and auto parts are emerging problems. (references)

Israel

In 1999 and 2000, Israeli Customs increased its seizures of counterfeit goods entering Israeli ports. (references)

Political Economy

SINGAPORE

However, the transshipment of counterfeit products through Singapore is a problem. (references)

PAKISTAN

Some counterfeit products made in Pakistan are reportedly exported to other markets. (references)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

There has been less success in stemming the export of Korean counterfeit products globally. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

In some popular consumer goods, manufacturers estimate that as much as 75% of the entire Saudi market is counterfeit. (references)

Japan

These include narcotics, firearms, counterfeit currency, pornography, and products that violate intellectual property laws. (references)

Japan

Japan strictly prohibits entry of narcotics and related utensils, firearms, firearm parts and ammunition, counterfeit or imitation money, obscene materials, or goods that violate intellectual property rights. (references)

Travel

Korea

Possession of significant amounts of counterfeit goods can lead to criminal prosecution. (references)

Korea

By attempting to carry counterfeit goods through U.S. Customs, one runs the risk of having them confiscated. (references)

Korea

Questions regarding the import of counterfeit goods into the U.S. should be directed to the U.S. Customs office at the Embassy in Seoul at 82-2-397-4644. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

Individual government officials may provide counterfeit documents illicitly to traffickers (although no specific cases were reported), but government agencies try to eradicate corruption and fraud within their ranks. (references)

Ethiopia

There reportedly is a network of persons based in the tourism and import-export sectors who are involved heavily in soliciting potential clients, recruiting young girls, arranging travel, and fabricating counterfeit work permits, travel documents, and birth certificates. (references)

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Expressions using "counterfeit": counterfeit coin ♦ counterfeit coins ♦ counterfeit money. Additional references.

Albanian

sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), i shtirë (affected, airy, camp, feigned, folksy, hollow, hypocritical, precious), i falsifikuar (adulterate, fabricated, faked, pseudo, shoddy), falsifikoj (adulterate, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, wangle), falsifikim (adulteration, Counterfeiting, fabrication, falsification, forgery). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزور (counterfeiter, false, forged, phoney, pirate, rigged), ‏تزوير (forgery, fraud, malpractice, piracy, rigging), ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏زيف (adulterate, alloy, artificiality, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), ‏زور تزوير (forge), ‏زور (forge, ghost, spectrum, tamper, tinker), ‏شىء مزيف (fake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшифицирам (adulterate, corrupt, doctor, fake, falsify, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, tamper), фалшификация (ersatz, fabrication, fake, falsification, forgery, sham), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), подражавам (copy, echo, imitate, monkey), подправка (alloy, condiment, doctor, flavoring, flavouring, forgery, herb, imitation, relish, sauce, seasoning, spice), подправен (adulterate, adulterine, corrupt, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), имитация (ersatz, fake, imitation, mock, pinchbeck, repetition, replication, sham, simulation), измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler). (various references)

Chinese 

假劣, 仿� . (various references)

Czech

padìlek (fake, falsification, phoney, phony), padìlat (fabricate, fake, falsify, forge), padìlaný (bogus, fake, forged), napodobenina (fake, imitation). (various references)

Danish

ulovligt eftertryk (literary piracy, pirated edition), piratudgave (literary piracy, pirated edition), piratere (imitate, pirate), forfalskning (adulteration, fake, forgery, literary piracy, pirated edition), eftertrykke ulovligt (imitate, pirate). (various references)

Dutch

vervalsing (adulteration, fake, forgery). (various references)

Esperanto

imitita (faked, forged), falsaĵo. (various references)

Farsi 

قلب (Anagram, Brassy, Heart, Midst, Spurious), جعلی (Apocryphal, Bogus, Imitation, Spurious), جعل کردن (Concoct, Invent, Manufacture, Mint), بدلی (Imitation, Imitative, Spurious). (various references)

Finnish

väärentää (adulterate, falsify, forge), väärennys (adulteration, fake, falsification, forgery), jäljitelmä (imitation). (various references)

French

contrefaire, contrefaçon. (various references)

German

fälschen (fake, falsify, forge, fudge), nachgemacht (imitated). (various references)

Greek 

κίβδηλοσ (bogus, phony, spurious), πλαστόσ (false, falsified, fictitious, forged, mock, sham, shoddy, spurious, supposititious), πλαστογραφώ (cook, cook the books, falsify, forge), παραποιώ (alter, falsify, manipulate, misquote, prevaricate, tamper), υποκρίνομαι (cant, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, simulate), ψεύτικοσ (bogus, delusive, dummy, false, phoney). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזויף (bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, forged, made up, meretricious, mock, postiche, snide, specious, spurious), לחקות (copy, emulate, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, pastiche, simulate). (various references)

Hungarian

utánzott (bogus, false, imitative, mock, unoriginal), hamisítvány (adulteration, bastard, fake, forgery, imitation). (various references)

Indonesian

memalsukan (adulterate, debase). (various references)

Italian

contraffazione (adulteration, fabrication, falsification, forgery, spuriousness), contraffare (adulterate, fake, falsify, fiddle, forge, imitate, lift, simulate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

偽物 (forgery, spurious article). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎぶつ (forgery, spurious article), が�"さく (fake, sham), が�"ぶつ (forgery, imitation, sham), まゆつばもの (fake), まやかし (deception, fake, make-believe, phony), にせさく (fake, sham), にせもの (forgery, imitation, imposter, liar, sham, spurious article), にてひなる (falsely similar), いかさま (fraud, trickery), もぞう (imitation, mimic), えせもの (fraud, impostor, pretender, sham). (various references)

Manx

molteyr (charlatan, cheat, con man, confidence trickster, deceiver, deluder, duper, fraud, impostor), lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, dissimulate, dissimulation, feign, feigning, feint, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, profess, sham, simulate, simulation), foalsey (affected, bogus, dud, dummy, ersatz, fallacious, false, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, sham, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, two-faced, wrong, wrong as note), foalsaghey (deceitfully, deceive, doctor, fake, falsification, falsify, forge). (various references)

Norwegian

forfalskning (fake, falsification), forfalske (adulterate, fake, falsify). (various references)

Pig Latin

ounterfeitcay

Portuguese

contrafazer (imitate, pirate), contrafacção (counterfeiting, literary piracy, pirated edition), simular (affect, assume, camouflage, feign, feint, make believe, palter, play-act, pretend, purport, put on, sham, simulate), simulado (artful, assumed, double, dummy, feigned, make-believe, mock, pretended, sham, simulate, simulated, spurious), prestidigitador (conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, juggler, magician, palmer, prestidigitator), malabarista (juggler), impostor (charlatan, cheat, hocus, humbug, imposter, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, quack, quacksalver, sham, shammer, shyster, swindler, trickster), imitar (ape, copy, duplicate, imitate, pattern), imitação (cheat, dud, fake, mimesis, mimicry, mock, phoney, phony, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, substitute, take-off), fingir (assume, attitudinize, dissemble, double, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, palter, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), falsificar (adulterate, bast, doctor, dope, dose, fake, falsify, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, pirate, tamper, vitiate, wangle), falsificador (faker, forger, imitator, pirate), falsificado (adulterate, base, cogged, faked, false, snide, spurious), falsificação (adulteration, bogus, dud, fake, falsification, forgery, mock, phoney, phony, salting, sham, sophistication, substitute). (various references)

Romanian

copia (copy, copy down, crib, forge, imitate, plagiarize, print, reproduce, transcribe), contrafacere (fake, forgery, forging), contraface (adulterate, fake, forge), contrafãcut (colourable, counterfeited, forged, spurious), surogat (apology, composition, substitute, succedaneum, surrogate), plastografie (forgery), plastografia (forge), mãslui (falsify, gerrymander, manipulate, stack), imitat, imitare (imitation, mimicry, mock, take off), imitaţie (copy, echo, forgery, imitation, pastiche, pinchbeck), imita (ape, copy, echo, follow, forge, go after, imitate, mimic, parody, pattern after, simulate), falsifica (adulterate, alter, cook, debase, distort, doctor, Duff, fake, falsify, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, deprave, distort, forge, spoil, taint). (various references)

Russian 

подражать (ape, copy, echo, emulate, imitate, impersonate, portray), подлог (forgery), поддельный (bogus, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal), подделывать (doctor, fabricate, fake, forge, tamper, tin), подделка (adulteration, fabrication, false coin, falsification, hacking, manipulation, phoney, sham, shams). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lažan novac, lažan (apocryphal, assumed, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), falsifikovati (fake, falsify, forge, wangle), falsifikovan (adulterate), falsifikat (adulteration, fake, forgery). (various references)

Spanish

falsificación (fake, falsification, forgery, misrepresentation). (various references)

Swedish

förfalska (adulterate, constitution, cook, debase, doctor, fabricate, fake, fake up, falsify, fiddle, forge, load). (various references)

Turkish

yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, do an impression of smb., echo, fake, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, mock, simulate, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), sahtesini yapmak (debase, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge), sahte şey (bogus, fake, forgery, phoney, phony), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), para basmak (coin, coin money, mint), kalp para (false money, queer), kalp (base, bogus, false, forged, heart, mock, phoney, phony, queer, spurious). (various references)

Turkmen 

galp (fake). (various references)

Ukrainian

удавати (affect, assume, let on, make believe, profess), удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), імітувати (hit off, imitate, mime, mimic, model oneself on, simulate), самозванець (cheat, impersonator, impostor), фальсифікувати (adulterate, doctor, falsify), фальсифікований (adulterate, adulterated, falsified, sophisticate, sophisticated, supposititious), фальшивка (fraud), фальшивий (bad, base, bastard, bogus, double-minded, faked, false, falsified, feigned, flash, off-key, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plugged, pseudo, queer, sheeny, wrong), обманщик (bluff, bluffer, cheat, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, double-dealer, foist, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phoney, pretender, trickster, twister), облудний (affected, captious, deceitful, fraudulent, illusive, put on), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), підробка (adulteration, dud, fake, falsehood, forgery, pinchbeck, postiche, sham), підробляти (adulterate, fake, falsify, feign, forge, imitate, mimic, tamper), підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, dummy, falsified, imitative, mock, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious), прикидатися (affect, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, sham, simulate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật giả mạo, vật giả, giả mạo giả vờ, giả đò (pretended), giả (dummy, make-believe, mock, pinchbeck, sham, spurious). (various references)

adulter, adultera, adulterabis, adulterae, adulteram, adulterans, adulterantes, adulterare, adulterarum, adulteraverint, adulteres, adulteri, adulteris, adulterorum, adulteros, adulterum, fictis, fictisque, fictorum, fictum, finctus, fingens, fingere, fingis, fingit, fingo, finxerat, finxit, fixerat, fixere, fixeris, fixeritis, fixerunt, fixi, fixit, mendace, mendacem, mendaces, mendacia, mendacii, mendaciis, mendacio, mendacis, mendacium, mendax, simila, similare, similari, similasti, similatus, similem, similes, simula, simulans, simulantes, simularent, simularetur, simulas, simulata, simulator, simulatus, simulaverant. (various references)

contrefait. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "counterfeit": counterfeited, counterfeiter, counterfeiters, counterfeiting, counterfeits. (additional references)

Words containing "counterfeit": anticounterfeiting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Counterfeit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conterfeit, conterfete, counerfeit, counterfeist, counterfiet, counterfit, covnterfeit. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: confiture, fettucine, refection.

-3 letters: ceinture, confetti, confuter, contrite, enuretic, erection, fourteen, frenetic, infecter, infector, intercut, neoteric, neurotic, reinfect, reoutfit, reticent, tenorite, tincture, toreutic, trecento, unerotic, unfetter.

-4 letters: cittern, coenure, coenuri, coinfer, cointer, confute, conifer, cornute, coterie, cottier, counter, curette, enforce, enteric, enticer, eucrite, fortune, fouette, frounce, functor, nettier, noticer, nuttier, oftener, outfire, recount.

+1 letter: counterfeits.

+2 letters: counterfeited, counterfeiter.

+3 letters: counterfeiters, counterfeiting.