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bait-and-switched

bait-and-switched is the simple past and past participle of bait-and-switch.

Meaning of bait-and-switch

Verb

bait-and-switch (third-person singular simple present bait-and-switches, present participle bait-and-switching, simple past and past participle bait-and-switched)

  1. (transitive) To exploit using bait and switch.
    • 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[…]2009, Jane White, America, Welcome to the Poorhouse […] , FT Press, →ISBN, page 64

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Questions about bait-and-switched

What is bait-and-switched the simple past and past participle of?
Bait-and-switched is the simple past and past participle of bait-and-switch.

Words near bait-and-switched in the dictionary

  1. bait dog
  2. bait dogs
  3. bait money
  4. bait up
  5. bait-and-switch
  6. bait-and-switched
  7. bait-and-switches
  8. bait-and-switching
  9. bait-cord
  10. baitable
  11. baitboat

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