They were ____ the system by fraudulently collecting disability checks.

noun

1. The practice or activity of playing games for stakes gambling

   "After a six-decade absence, casino gaming makes its return next month to this Southern Indiana valley, once famous for luxury resorts that attracted the nation's elite."

2. The practice or activity of playing games (such as board games, card games, or video games)

   "online/mobile/PC gaming"

verb

1. To manipulate, exploit, or cheat in (a system, a situation, etc.) slyly or dishonestly for personal gain

   "game the tax system"

2. To play video games

   "Globally [in 2019], more than two billion people play video games, including 150 million Americans (nearly half the country's population), 60 percent of whom game daily."

3. To play for a stake gamble

   "Is it the interest of any man to steal, to game, to waste his health and mental faculties by drunkenness …? No. All these are roads to ruin."

4. To lose or squander by gambling
5. to manipulate, exploit, or cheat in (a system, a situation, etc.) slyly or dishonestly for personal gain
6. to play video games
7. to play for a stake : gamble

verb

1. To begin drinking alcohol before an event or activity (such as a party or a night out)

   "Her friends, all in their 20s and pregaming for a Saturday night out in the bars, nodded enthusiastically."

adjective

1. Designed or suitable for use or display on a tabletop or similar surface

   "This symmetrical conifer is a standard tabletop Christmas tree."

2. Of, relating to, or involving games (such as board games or card games) that are designed to be played at or on a table

   "Three years ago, a team of tabletop industry experts gathered to create the American alternative to … Germany's prestigious board game awards."

3. Of or relating to tabletops see tabletop

   "Glassware photography is a subset of table top photography but it is the trickiest of the lot."

4. designed or suitable for use or display on a tabletop or similar surface
5. of, relating to, or involving games (such as board games or card games) that are designed to be played at or on a table
6. of or relating to tabletops : being a tabletop

verb

1. To plan or conduct in the manner of a war game

   "war-gamed an invasion"

2. To conduct a war game