Fraud is a deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain (adjectival form fraudulent; to defraud is the verb, and the Badges of Fraud are used by the court s as rough gauge as to whether Fraud exists in the situation or not.. (disinherited.com)
So I trust that most of the audience is responding in the right spirit, and I use the complainers as a rough gauge to how many people I'm actually reaching. (bookbrowse.com)
Taking Nobel Prize - winners as a rough gauge you can see that in 109 years of the prize, there have been only four winners from Asia: Gao Xingjian from China in 2000, Kenzaburo Oe in 1994, Yasunari Kawabata in 1968, and Rabindranath Tagore in 1913. (publishingperspectives.com)