Cozenage

Definition: Cozenage

Cozenage

Noun

1. A fraudulent business scheme.

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

Date "cozenage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Cozenage \Coz"en*age\ (-[asl]j), noun. [See Cozen, and compare to Cousinage.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Cozenage

Deception

Delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke.

Crosswords: Cozenage

Albanian

mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Czech

klamství. (various references)

Hungarian

csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery). (various references)

Pig Latin

ozenagecay

Portuguese

logro (bluff, bob, cantrip, cheat, circumvention, cross, do, graft, hoax, imposition, leasing, mare's-nest, mystification, overreach, sham, spoof, swindle, take-in), engano (blunder, bunco, cheat, chouse, circumvention, deceit, deception, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, gammon, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, mare's-nest, miscalculation, miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, sham, slip, take-in, tripping). (various references)

Romanian

înşelare (deceit, fraudulence, fraudulency). (various references)

Russian 

обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obmana (bluff, bubble, chicanery, circumvention, deceit, deception, delusion, fraud, hoax, jugglery). (various references)

Spanish

engaño (artfulness, bamboozle, betrayal, deceit, deceitfulness, deceiving, deception, delusion, double cross, dupe, dupery, falsification, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, lure, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, phony, sham, swindle, token, trick, trickery). (various references)

Swedish

bedrägeri (bunco, buncos, cheat, deceit, deception, do, double cross, dupery, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, gammon, gyp, humbug, illusion, imposture, jugglery, knavery, racket, sell, swindle, take in, take-in). (various references)

Ukrainian

обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), обдурювання (chouse, dupery, hocus pocus, humbug, overreach, racket, skulduggery). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa gạt (deceifulness, delusion, gouge, juggle, rig, take-in), sự lừa dối (beguilement, deceifulness, deceit, deception, delusion, duplicity, falsehood, gammon, lie), sự bị lừa gạt, sự bị lừa (delusion). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cozenage": cozenages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cozenage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cosynage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: congee, encage.

-3 letters: agene, agone, canoe, conga, conge, cozen, genoa, ocean, zoeae.

-4 letters: acne, aeon, agee, agon, azon, cage, cane, cone, gaen, gane, gaze, geez, gene, gone, ogee, once, zoea, zone.

-5 letters: ace, age, ago, ane, azo, can, cee, cog, con, coz, ego, eng, eon, gae, gan, gee, gen, goa, nae, nag, nee, nog.

+1 letter: cozenages.

+4 letters: recognizable, recognizance.

+5 letters: recognizances.