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What does bait-and-switch mean?

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Adjective
  1. Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.
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Part of this pop-centric bait-and-switch is shifting the focus away from the guitars and hi-hats towards the vocals.
They clamp down retailers who engage in sale-price bait-and-switch, and a wide variety of issues of electronic fraud.
Lip Service thus becomes a kind of a confidence trick, a bait-and-switch technique in which readers are not dupes but co-conspirators.
There may be a backlash for this bait-and-switch among some independent voters, but probably not from most Tea Party activists.
The usual evolutionist hand-waving and bait-and-switch tactics were employed in a grand piece of propaganda.
Wallach and other leaders of worldwide popular dissent have been making the same argument about bait-and-switch diplomacy for a decade.

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