Estafar in english
Swindle
pronunciation: swɪndəl part of speech: noun, verb
pronunciation: swɪndəl part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures
estafar = cheat (on) ; defraud ; rip + Nombre + off ; swindle ; shortchange ; bilk ; humbug ; con ; hoax ; scam ; diddle ; flim-flam ; take + Nombre + for a ride ; stitch + Nombre + up ; pull + a fast one (on + Nombre) ; fox ; be on the fiddle.
Example: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.Example: The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.Example: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.Example: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.Example: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.Example: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.Example: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.Example: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.Example: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.Example: Insurance rates are off the chart due to people scamming insurance companies.Example: It should be remembered that the last time they were here, they were diddled -- Could it be a case of 'once bitten twice shy'?.Example: You are being flim-flammed by just another industry shill.Example: That is when the King realized he had been taken for a ride and it took an innocent child to point out his situation.Example: It seems to me as if the person who had overall responsibility for paying bills has stitched her up.Example: This is the problem -- she has a history of appearing to 'pull a fast one on' the American people.Example: Time and again I have noticed how the US public have been foxed by both Democrats and Republicans alike.Example: I gather then, from what you are saying, that he has been on the fiddle syphoning money from the company.