[f. SWINDLE v.2 + -ING1.] The action of SWINDLE v.2; the practice of a swindler; fraud or imposition for purposes of gain; systematic cheating.
1792. H. Walpole, Lett. to W. Beloe, 24 Sept. A deep laid plan of political swindling.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. IV. 177. He seems not to have taken up the trade of a false witness till he could no longer support himself by begging or swindling.
1869. Adam Smith’s W. N., I. II. ii. 326, note. Free trade in banking, it has been wisely and wittily said, is free trade in swindling.
