→confidence trick(Definition ofconfidence gamefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofconfidence game
confidence gameA confidence trick orconfidencegameis an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This scheme, a form ofconfidencegame, consisted of bilking wealthy widows of their money by encouraging them to invest in horses.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An individual that practiced such aconfidencegamewould be branded as a two-penny thief, and would soon be consigned to a house of correction.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or aconfidencegame.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Doll and company decide to set up aconfidencegame, what was then called coney-catching.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were variants of the brokered loanconfidencegame.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The men who worked this form ofconfidencegameoften acted as gigolos to the widows they bilked.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A false document is usually created as an artistic exercise, but occasionally is promoted in conjunction with a criminal enterprise, such as fraud, forgery, or aconfidencegame.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Appealing to his greed and his masculinity, she convinces him to use his skills with crooked dice in aconfidencegameto help her separate convention-goers from their money.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As long as capital flows freely, nations will be vulnerable to speculative attack and policy makers will be forced to play theconfidencegame.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/confidence-game##
