cheat

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cheat /tʃ'iːt/ (cheats cheating cheated)
1 [VERB] V
When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
Students may be tempted to cheat in order to get into top schools.
● cheating [N-UNCOUNT]
In an election in 1988, he was accused of cheating by his opponent.
2 [N-COUNT]
Someone who is a cheat does not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying.
Cheats will be disqualified.
3 [VERB] V n out of/of n, V n
If someone cheats you out of something, they get it from you by behaving dishonestly.
The company engaged in a deliberate effort to cheat them out of their pensions...
Many brokers were charged with cheating customers in commodity trades.
4 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed. (JOURNALISM)
He cheated death when he was rescued from the roof of his blazing cottage.cheat on
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n
If someone cheats on their husband, wife, or partner, they have a sexual relationship with another person. (INFORMAL)
I'd found Philippe was cheating on me and I was angry and hurt.
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n
If someone cheats on something such as an agreement or their taxes, they do not do what they should do under a set of rules. (mainly AM)
Their job is to check that none of the signatory countries is cheating on the agreement.

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