counterfeiting

English

Verb

counterfeiting

1. present participle and gerund of counterfeit

Noun

counterfeiting (plural counterfeitings)

1. The act of one who counterfeits.
   • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:

     Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]

Derived terms

• anticounterfeiting
• counterfeitingly