switch selling

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noun

a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead

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Words nearby switch selling

switch-off, switch-on, switchover, switch plate, switch plug, switch selling, switchyard, swith, swither, Swithin, Switz.

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How to use switch selling in a sentence

There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
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Eventually, she did—more or less—reinventing herself as Nicki Minaj and becoming a platinum-selling hip-hop superstar.
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He was not selling “loosies” that day, no cigarettes were found on his person, and thus there was no probable cause in play.
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Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
He lifted his head, looked around him, and was just going to switch off the light, when he noticed the open book on his table.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
To learn this, he went on the road himself appointing agents and selling to bookstores.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
I have no means of paying them except by selling my estate, and therefore it must go.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various