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Definition of rip-off in English: rip-offnoun ˈrɪpɒfˈrɪp ˌɔf informal 1A fraud or swindle, especially something that is grossly overpriced. designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs Example sentencesExamples - But as appealing as these offers sound, they're usually rip-offs.
- Store cards are among the UK's biggest financial rip-offs - and yet we have around 18 ½ million store-card accounts, with 23 million cards in circulation.
- Unfortunately, this issue is just the latest in a long line of disguised consumer rip-offs in the name of consumer protection, created by government enforced agricultural cartel marketing organizations.
- In other words, its profit margins are around 80%, which makes it one of the UK's biggest financial rip-offs.
- These rip-offs include payment protection insurance (optional life, accident, sickness and unemployment cover) and card protection plans (cover for lost or stolen plastic).
- Most auction sites are concerned about the effects that fraudulent transactions have on their business and, as a result, have introduced a number of mechanisms designed to reduce to protect customers against such rip-offs.
- Home insurance (buildings and contents cover) and mortgage payment protection insurance (accident, sickness and unemployment cover) from mortgage lenders are rip-offs, too.
- As such it's one of the most monumental rip-offs we know of - one which will, of course, be bought with taxpayers' hard-earned cash wherever it's deployed.
- Nonetheless, booking a trip online is a difficult sandbox to sift through, a landscape rife with rip-offs and reverse auctions, great deals and time-share come-ons.
- The New York attorney general who has made his name exposing sharp practices on Wall Street, has now turned his attention to alleged rip-offs by pharmaceutical companies.
- The frequency of this consumer crusade by our guardians in Wapping has led most people to believe that these cheap bits of degradable plastic are nothing but a rip-off of the highest order.
- Payment protection insurance is one of the biggest financial rip-offs ever.
- Of course, while a few of these products qualify for the prized honour of being a Best Buy, most are mediocre or, even worse, complete rip-offs.
- Remind me how the FSA protects investors from unscrupulous companies and salespeople and rip-off products?
- The rip-offs can vary from interest overcharging to the failure to set off loan accounts against accounts which are in credit.
- These ‘explorers’ often claim to be benevolent defenders of freedom and fighters against rip-offs by major corporations or spying by government agents.
- In my view, and speaking as someone who worked in this industry for over eleven years, payment protection insurance is one of the most grotesque financial rip-offs ever.
- And perhaps more importantly, most authors don't want to name names when it comes to pointing out bad products or rip-off hosting companies, of which there are far too many.
Synonyms fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, confidence trick, mare's nest overcharging informal con, con trick, scam, flimflam, gyp, kite British informal ramp, twist, swizz, daylight robbery North American informal rip, shakedown, hustle, grift, bunco, boondoggle Australian informal rort British archaic, informal do, flanker, have - 1.1 An inferior imitation of something.
rip-offs of all the latest styles Example sentencesExamples - Everywhere there were tachiste paintings that seemed absorbed in sentimental assertions of the beauty of abstraction, coexisting with touristic-looking carved-wood rip-offs of traditional African sculpture.
- A while back there was a discussion on this forum about how the film was basically a rip-off of some director or company.
- He was first lionised by the press and then held unfairly responsible for the subsequent slew of inferior rip-offs by other directors.
- Most early house records were disco rip-offs.
- And it may make rip-off artists think twice before churning out knock-offs.
- Okay, so we all know that Hollywood thrives on the unoriginal - homages, remakes, sequels, adaptations and jes'plain rip-offs.
- You gotta love them for their originality, even if the movies featured in this collection are a mixed bag of campy flicks, classic genre rip-offs, and foreign titles.
- Then you can count on some no-name studio to produce rip-offs of those blockbusters.
Definition of rip-off in US English: rip-offnounˈrip ˌôfˈrɪp ˌɔf informal 1A fraud or swindle, especially something that is grossly overpriced. designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs Example sentencesExamples - Remind me how the FSA protects investors from unscrupulous companies and salespeople and rip-off products?
- The rip-offs can vary from interest overcharging to the failure to set off loan accounts against accounts which are in credit.
- These rip-offs include payment protection insurance (optional life, accident, sickness and unemployment cover) and card protection plans (cover for lost or stolen plastic).
- Unfortunately, this issue is just the latest in a long line of disguised consumer rip-offs in the name of consumer protection, created by government enforced agricultural cartel marketing organizations.
- Home insurance (buildings and contents cover) and mortgage payment protection insurance (accident, sickness and unemployment cover) from mortgage lenders are rip-offs, too.
- The frequency of this consumer crusade by our guardians in Wapping has led most people to believe that these cheap bits of degradable plastic are nothing but a rip-off of the highest order.
- The New York attorney general who has made his name exposing sharp practices on Wall Street, has now turned his attention to alleged rip-offs by pharmaceutical companies.
- But as appealing as these offers sound, they're usually rip-offs.
- Most auction sites are concerned about the effects that fraudulent transactions have on their business and, as a result, have introduced a number of mechanisms designed to reduce to protect customers against such rip-offs.
- In my view, and speaking as someone who worked in this industry for over eleven years, payment protection insurance is one of the most grotesque financial rip-offs ever.
- And perhaps more importantly, most authors don't want to name names when it comes to pointing out bad products or rip-off hosting companies, of which there are far too many.
- Payment protection insurance is one of the biggest financial rip-offs ever.
- Of course, while a few of these products qualify for the prized honour of being a Best Buy, most are mediocre or, even worse, complete rip-offs.
- Nonetheless, booking a trip online is a difficult sandbox to sift through, a landscape rife with rip-offs and reverse auctions, great deals and time-share come-ons.
- In other words, its profit margins are around 80%, which makes it one of the UK's biggest financial rip-offs.
- As such it's one of the most monumental rip-offs we know of - one which will, of course, be bought with taxpayers' hard-earned cash wherever it's deployed.
- Store cards are among the UK's biggest financial rip-offs - and yet we have around 18 ½ million store-card accounts, with 23 million cards in circulation.
- These ‘explorers’ often claim to be benevolent defenders of freedom and fighters against rip-offs by major corporations or spying by government agents.
Synonyms fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, confidence trick, mare's nest - 1.1 An inferior imitation of something.
rip-offs of all the latest styles Example sentencesExamples - A while back there was a discussion on this forum about how the film was basically a rip-off of some director or company.
- You gotta love them for their originality, even if the movies featured in this collection are a mixed bag of campy flicks, classic genre rip-offs, and foreign titles.
- And it may make rip-off artists think twice before churning out knock-offs.
- He was first lionised by the press and then held unfairly responsible for the subsequent slew of inferior rip-offs by other directors.
- Then you can count on some no-name studio to produce rip-offs of those blockbusters.
- Everywhere there were tachiste paintings that seemed absorbed in sentimental assertions of the beauty of abstraction, coexisting with touristic-looking carved-wood rip-offs of traditional African sculpture.
- Most early house records were disco rip-offs.
- Okay, so we all know that Hollywood thrives on the unoriginal - homages, remakes, sequels, adaptations and jes'plain rip-offs.
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