bait-and-switch

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To exploit using bait and switch. transitive
    — Perhaps the most baffling and frustrating feature of the mortgage mess is that, to my knowledge, the House Financial Services Committee never held public hearings in which bait-and-switched homeowners testified as to how their mortgage payments doubled in just a few years[…]
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere. not-comparable
    — Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy.

词形变化

bait-and-switches present,singular,third-person bait-and-switching participle,present bait-and-switched participle,past bait-and-switched past
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