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Связанные Термины

shill bidding
Shill teklif
shilling
eski İngiliz gümüş parası
shilling
yenilgi
shillings
silin
shilling
{i} şilin

Bir şilin alabilir miyim, efendim? - May I have a shilling, sir?

New York'ta, dolar sekiz şiline değerdi. - In New York, the dollar was worth eight shillings.

shilling
(isim) şilin
Английский Язык - Английский Язык
To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly

Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.

A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial

Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time.

An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game

The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill.

To put under cover; to sheal
A person employed by or representing an unscrupulous auctioneer or owner of the items being offered at public auction, and who creates artificially higher prices for lots sold at public sales
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up
{f} act as a shill, work as a shill, act as a decoy, pose as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.)
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
{i} decoy, one who poses as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.)
(noun) Term for a biased fan, or employee of a wrestling company, who's inabilityto criticize or disagree with anything that person's favourite promotion does ultimately negatestheir credibility
A shill is similar to a proposition player, except a shill gambles with the cardroom's money instead of his/her own
To promote as a fan or customer
act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
To shell

Связанные Термины

shilling
Present participle of shill
shillings
Plural of shilling
shilling
{n} a silver coin, a nominal sum of twelve pence, of various value
shilled
Simple past and past participle of shill
shilling
a former monetary unit in Great Britain
shilling
A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries
shilling
12 pence Bob Small silvery coin Replaced by 5 new pence
shilling
The unscrupulous practice of a seller bidding up the price on their own item or the engaging of other individuals to do so If there is a suspicion of shilling by a user of our website, please notify us immediately at shilling@guyla com Any evidence of shilling will immediately and permanently suspend a user from further use of the website
shilling
an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
shilling
the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
shilling
Pre-decimal currency equal to 12 pennies and equivalent to 5p today
shilling
The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
shilling
the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
shilling
The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12&?; cets; formerly so called in New York and some other States
shilling
Fraudulent bidding by the seller (using an alternate registration) or an associate of the seller in order to inflate the price of an item Also known as bid rigging and collusion
shilling
A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency
shilling
It is not now legally recognized
shilling
{i} monetary unit of a number of countries (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda); former monetary unit of a number of countries (including the United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, etc.); coin formerly used in the United Kingdom and the United States
shilling
See Note under 2
shilling
slash (/); used in the term shilling fraction
shilling
the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
shilling
In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States
shilling
the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
shilling
A shilling was a unit of money used in Britain until 1971 which was the equivalent of 5p. There were twenty shillings in a pound
shills
plural of shill
shills
Third person singular simple present of to shill
shill

    Турецкое произношение

    şîl

    Произношение

    /ˈsʜəl/ /ˈʃɪl/

    Этимология

    () Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916.Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, and First Supplement, 1933“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary'', Douglas Harper, 2001 Perhaps an abbreviation of the Yiddish shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. Speculatively cognate to German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber.Studies in the history of the English language II: unfolding conversations, by Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons, There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer|George Shillibeer]],The name's familiar II, by Laura Lee, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.

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