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# swindler

«swindler» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who cheats others, often to get their money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (swindlers)

### meaning for a pupil

A swindler is a person who cheats others, often to get their money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swindler/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, swindlers trick a king or a town into paying them for something that does not exist

### examples

- The swindlers promised fine cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swindler/#x1)
- Don't trust that swindler at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swindler/#x2)
- The swindler ran off with the gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swindler/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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