Meaning & use
Kited
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Flew a kite; also, in finance and law, fraudulently wrote or circulated checks or securities to obtain credit based on funds that do not yet exist.
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The children kited their paper dragons over the beach all afternoon.
He was arrested after prosecutors discovered he had kited checks between two accounts for months.
A note on using this word
"Check kiting," the fraudulent practice of exploiting the delay between deposit and clearance, is the more specialized, financially significant sense of this word.
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2. verb
To fly a kite in the air.
They kited a colorful diamond-shaped kite over the open field.
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