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PRONUNCIATION OF PERSONATION

personation  [ˌpɜːsənˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERSONATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Personation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERSONATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Personation

Personation is a term used in law for the specific kind of voter fraud where an individual votes in an election, whilst pretending to be a different elector. Many jurisdictions allow electors to nominate an individual to vote on their behalf, in certain circumstances; this is known as proxy voting. Whilst voting with an invalid proxy form could be considered personation, it is usual for an intent to deceive to be required for such an act to be considered criminal.

Definition of personation in the English dictionary

The definition of personation in the dictionary is identity theft; pretending to be someone else.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERSONATION


affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
Asian
ˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
bromination
ˌbrəʊmɪnˈeɪʃən
connation
kɒnˈeɪʃən
creation
kriːˈeɪʃən
Croatian
krəʊˈeɪʃən
deoxygenation
diːˌɒksɪdʒɪnˈeɪʃən
deviation
ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən
evaluation
ɪˌvæljʊˈeɪʃən
graduation
ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
hyphenation
ˌhaɪfənˈeɪʃən
nunnation
nʌnˈeɪʃən
Pan-Asian
ˈpænˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
situation
ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən
variation
ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERSONATION

personalist
personalistic
personalities
personality
personality clash
personality cult
personality disorder
personality inventory
personality test
personality type
personalization
personalize
personalized
personalized number plate
personally
personalties
personalty
personate
personative
personator

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERSONATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
excitation
federation
formation
foundation

Synonyms and antonyms of personation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «personation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERSONATION

Find out the translation of personation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of personation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «personation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冒充
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

personation
570 millions of speakers

English

personation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अवतार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

personation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

другое лицо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

personation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপরের রূপ ধারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usurpation d´identité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peribadi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Persona
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

personation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

personation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự tự xưng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனிப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यक्तित्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karakteri canlandırma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impersonificazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

personation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

іншу особу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

personificare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπόδυση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

personation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

personation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

personation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of personation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONATION»

The term «personation» is normally little used and occupies the 111.879 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «personation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «personation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about personation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSONATION»

Discover the use of personation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to personation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Personation; or, Fairly taken in: a comic interlude, in one ...
PERSONATION,. Fairly. Tnken. In. ACT I. SCENE I.--An Apartment opening into a gm'den with foldingdoors, c. F.--A Table and live Chairs. Enter LADY JULIA with a candle and a letter. Lady I. My plot is laid, my servants are all disposed of, and ...
afterwards KEMBLE DE CAMP (Marie Thérèse), 1860
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A Penal Code
He cheats by personation. (h) A cheats by falsely pretending to be a Clergyman. He cheats by personation. . ( i ) A cheats by falsely pretending to be a member of one of the sovereign Houses of India. He cheats by personation. (j) A cheats by ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, John Macpherson Macleod, Sir George William Anderson, 1837
3
Textbook on the Indian Penal Code
Cheating by personation. — A person is said to "cheat by personation" if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, or representing that he or any other person is a person other than ...
Krishna Deo Gaur, 2009
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The Asiatic Journal
A cheats by personation. (b) A cheats by pretending to be B, a person who is deceased. A cheats by personation. (0) John Smith cheats by calling himself Thomas Brown. John Smith cheats by personation. (d) A cheats by taking the title of ...
‎1838
5
Encyclopædia of the Laws of England: With Forms and ...
Personation, and aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation are corrupt practices and felonies (see the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, s. 3 and s. 6 (2); as to the punishment and  ...
Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Anderson Robertson, Frederick Pollock, 1907
6
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany
(a) A cheats by pretending to be a certain rich banker of the same name. A cheats by personation. (6) A cheats by pretending to be B, a person who is deceased. A cheats by personation. (c) John Smith cheats by calling himself Thomas Brown.
‎1838
7
The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and ...
A cheats by personation. (A) A cheats by pretending to be B, a person who is deceased. A cheats by personation. (c) John Smith cheats by calling himself Thomas Brown. John Smith cheats by personation. (d) A cheats by taking the title of ...
‎1838
8
Asiatic Journal
(a) A cheats by pretending to be a certain rich banker of the same name. A cheats by personation. (6) A cheats by pretending to be B, a person who is deceased. A cheats by personation. (c) John Smith cheats by calling himself Thomas Brown.
‎1838
9
The Indian Penal Code, as Originally Framed in 1837
(a) A cheats by pretending to be a certain rich banker of the same name. A cheats by personation. (b) A cheats by pretending to be B, a person who is deceased. A cheats by personation. (c) John Smith cheats by calling himself Thomas Brown.
India. Law Commission, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, 1888
10
Encyclopædia of the Laws of England: Being a New Abridgment ...
33, under which a person is for all purposes of the laws relating to parliamentary and municipal elections to be deemed to be guilty of the offence of personation, who, at an election for a county or borough, or at a municipal election, applies for  ...
Andrew William Donald, 1897

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSONATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term personation is used in the context of the following news items.
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No proof of cricketers-syndicate nexus in IPL spot-fixing: Court
... section 120-B (conspiracy) read with 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) of IPC and under the provisions of the stringent MCOCA. «Economic Times, Jul 15»
2
Justin Kunz Escaped Ontario Jail By Disguising Himself As Cellmate
... orders, uttering threats and mischief. He now faces arrest warrants for personation, uttering threats and being unlawfully at large, police said. «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»
3
Dominican national charged with conspiracy and fraud
Tavero Mora was initially charged in March of 2015 with one count of false personation of a U.S. Citizen and one count of fraud and misuse of ... «wwlp.com, Jul 15»
4
Judge threatens to bar insanity defense in South Shore home …
... attempted murder, assault, burglary, criminal weapon possession, grand larceny, stalking, false personation and stolen-property possession. «SILive.com, Jul 15»
5
Court deprecates Nagaland govt's conduct in not giving sanction
under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) read with 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
6
Trial for Calgary teen accused of hacking Calgary Board of …
Among the charges are personation with intent to cause disadvantage to another person and unlawfully using a computer by willfully ... «Calgary Sun, Jul 15»
7
Man leaves jail disguised as cellmate: police
Investigators say arrest warrants have been issued for Kunz for personation, uttering threats, and being unlawfully at large. Kunz had been in ... «OurWindsor.ca, Jul 15»
8
Arbitration Act amendment bill likely in Monsoon session: Secretary …
... video voyeurism, breach of confidentiality and leakage of data by intermediary, e-commerce frauds like cheating by personation - commonly ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
9
Cops: Yonkers Man Lied About Identity During Drug, Weapons Bust
... counts of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of stolen property, false personation, and unlawful possession of marijuana. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
10
Southampton Town Police Report
... operating without a court ordered interlock device, and false personation. He was held overnight and arraigned at Southampton Justice Court ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»

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