bait-and-switches
bait-and-switches is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)
- 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
Questions about bait-and-switches
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- Bait-and-switches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bait-and-switch.
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