| 单词 | skimming |
| 释义 | skimming skimming // noun [U]
1 (Marketing ) (also market-skimming pricing) the practice of setting the price for a new product high at first in order to make as much profit as possible and then lowering it gradually to attract more customers, for example when other companies create competition: Price skimming is used when a company has a unique product. ⇨ SKIM
2 (Finance , the illegal practice of not telling the government about part of your profits in order to avoid paying tax
3 ( the illegal practice of copying information that is stored electronically on a credit card in order to use it without the owner's permission: It is estimated that skimming now accounts for almost 50% of credit-card fraud. |
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