Meaning & use
bilking
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cheating or defrauding someone, especially by evading a debt or payment owed to them
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The contractor was arrested for bilking dozens of homeowners out of their deposits.
Investigators say the scheme worked by bilking elderly victims through fake charity calls.
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The base verb 'bilk' originally came from a term in the card game cribbage meaning to spoil an opponent's score.
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