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# forgery

«forgery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a copy of something such as a painting, a banknote, a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a forgery, forgeries; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A forgery is a copy of something such as a painting, a banknote, a document or a signature, made to trick people into thinking it is real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#m1)

2) (law) Forgery is the crime of making such false copies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and news about art, money and crime; detectives find out that a painting is a forgery. In school, copying a parent's signature on a note is forgery and is dishonest. Phrases: «a clever forgery», «guilty of forgery», «the painting is a forgery».

### examples

- The museum found out that the painting was a forgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x1)
- Forging a signature is forgery, which is a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x2)
- Banknotes have special marks to stop forgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x3)
- He was sent to prison for forgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x4)
- The detective spotted the forgery because the ink was too new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x5)
- Signing your mum's name on a school note is forgery, even if it seems small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/#x6)

### note

Plural «forgeries». Verb «forge» (also means to shape hot metal); person «forger». A «fake» is a looser everyday word. Not the same as «counterfeit», which is used especially for money and goods.

### In the corpora

- [Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/24/)
- [Forging a note turns one problem into two: the thing in the note and the forgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends/28/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forgery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.