Traductions de „bilk“ dans le dictionnaire anglais » allemand

bilk [bɪlk] VERBE trans fam

to bilk sb of sth

jdn um etw acc bringen fam

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This scheme, a form of confidence game, consisted of bilking wealthy widows of their money by encouraging them to invest in horses.

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Day after day the prosecution called a series of victims, bilked out of their life savings, to the stand.

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He also admitted to bilking legitimate winners out of $92,500 with his duplicate ticket scheme.

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They are inveterate gamblers who have joined forces to bilk local bookies by taking advantage of delayed broadcasts of horse races.

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I do nt know if you can go to prison for bilking gullible legislators.

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Bilk was not an international star until an experiment with a string ensemble and a composition of his own as its keynote piece made him one in 1962.

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Bilk got its own railway station, which today is only a station for regional trains.

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In the aftermath, investors (51 banks) learned that he had bilked them out of about $175 million in total ($1.2 billion in year 2000 dollars).

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According to the drummer, his ex-wife slept with his best friend, lied to him for several years and bilked him for money.

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The men who worked this form of confidence game often acted as gigolos to the widows they bilked.

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