Noun: rort rort
Usage: Austral, informal
Usage: Austral, informal
- The act of deceiving or cheating someone, often in a business context
"The politician was accused of a rort involving misuse of public funds";
- scam [informal], cozenage [archaic]
Derived forms: rorts
Type of: cheat, fraud, rig [archaic], swindle
Encyclopedia: Rort