Meaning of hoax in English
(Definition of hoax from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of hoax from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
hoax | Business English
Examples of hoax
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However, all these speculations are even more tenuous than those required to investigate the hidden trails of deliberate hoaxes.
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Historians can point to many other examples of hoaxes, successful or not.
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After cleaning the data for erroneous entries, cancelled calls, hoax calls, etc, 2781 non-urgent emergency calls with a total of 4310 vehicle journeys were analysed.
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Drift-message hoaxes could also relate to other maritime explorers.
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The similarities indicate a common modus operandi, suggesting that the two reports were hoaxes perpetrated by the same individual.
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On closer inspection, it appears to be a rather opaque hoax.
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And a rarer category are historical events based on pure pretence, deliberately false at the time : in short, hoaxes.
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But it was a hoax, and by no means the last of its kind.
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These hoaxes served different participants in different ways, yet all those who did the fooling could expect evil consequences from those who were fooled, were the truth ever to emerge.
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There are well-established arrangements with the news media for the discussion of hoaxes, false alarms, and the handling of public safety information.
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This strategy will address ways of reducing accidents, deaths resulting from accidents, false alarms and hoax calls.
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My points were entirely concerned with fraudulent and hoax orders, and the problem of trying to determine whether the goods had been ordered.
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Measures are being taken to reduce the number of hoax calls in a joint initiative between emergency services and telephone operating companies.
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This seems to me to be one gigantic public relations hoax.
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We all need to be vigilant during the strike, but it is also imperative that our cover is not stretched by hoax calls.
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