variegated, con artist, forfeitures

Now China has tightened its grip on the much more variegated world of online information, effectively forcing Google Inc., the world’s premier information provider, to choose between submitting to Chinese censorship and leaving the world’s largest community of Internet users to its rivals. It chose to leave.

Con Artist in Sting That Cost Google Millions

Over four months in 2009, a federal prisoner – and convicted con artist – was the lead actor in a government sting targeting Google that yielded one of the largest business forfeitures in U.S. history.

forfeiture
(fôr'fĭ-chʊr', -chər)
n.

1. The act of surrendering something as a forfeit.
2. Something that is forfeited; a penalty.

forfeiture[for・fei・ture]

• 発音記号[fɔ'ːrfitʃər]
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[名]

1 [U]（財産などの）没収；（権利・地位・名誉などの）喪失.

2 没収物；罰金, 科料.

con⁴ (kŏn) Slang.
tr.v., conned, con·ning, cons.
To swindle (a victim) by first winning his or her confidence; dupe.

n.
A swindle.

adj.
Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud: a con artist; a con job.



var·i·e·gat·ed (vâr'ē-ĭ-gā'tĭd, vâr'ĭ-gā'-, văr'-)
adj.

1. Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored: "If they recall the Colosseum . . . it is only as a showcase for cats more variegated than any fevered artist's mind could imagine" (Michael Mewshaw).
2. Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified.

mot·ley (mŏt'lē)
adj.

1. Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous: "Most Ivy League freshman classes are chosen from a motley collection of constituencies . . . and a bare majority of entering students can honestly be called scholars" (New York Times).
2. Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored: a motley tunic.