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falsificación

forgery

noun fahl-see-fee-kah-SYOHN Rare

Also means

falsification

Usage Note

Falsificación covers both the act and the result: it can mean the process of forging (la falsificación de documentos, 'document forgery') or the forged object itself (esta firma es una falsificación, 'this signature is a forgery'). The agent noun is falsificador/a (forger). In legal Spanish it appears in charges such as falsificación de moneda (counterfeiting currency).

Examples

"Lo arrestaron por falsificación de pasaportes."

Natural Translation

He was arrested for passport forgery.

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