fraudulent scheme

1. 1.

   an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

   Synonymsracketillegitimate enterprise

   Broaderenterprise

Questions about fraudulent scheme

What does fraudulent scheme mean?

fraudulent scheme means "an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit".

What is another word for fraudulent scheme?

Close synonyms include racket, illegitimate enterprise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fraudulent scheme a common word?

fraudulent scheme is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.