Associations to the word «Forgery»

Wiktionary

FORGERY, noun. The act of forging metal into shape.
FORGERY, noun. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
FORGERY, noun. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
FORGERY, noun. (archaic) An invention, creation.

Dictionary definition

FORGERY, noun. A copy that is represented as the original.
FORGERY, noun. Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope