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单词 sug
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Definition of sug in English:

sug

verbsugged, sugging, sugs sʌɡsəɡ
[no object]informal
  • Sell or attempt to sell a product under the guise of conducting market research.

    〈非正式〉(以市场研究为掩饰)做诈骗式的推销

    a market researcher claims the firm is sugging

    一名市场调查员声称该公司正在进行诈骗式的推销。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's not just unethical practices like "push-polling" and "sugging" that influence survey respondents.
    • I was a victim of sugging the other day when a foreign call centre gave me every impression it was conducting market research about attitudes to tax.
    • This practice, along with continued ‘sugging’ and ‘frugging,’ accelerates the tend, as Democratic pollster Mark Melman observed in a 1996 interview with John Nielson broadcast on National Public Radio's ‘All Things Considered.’

Origin

1980s: acronym from sell under the guise.

Definition of sug in US English:

sug

verbsəɡ
[no object]informal
  • Sell or attempt to sell a product under the guise of conducting market research.

    〈非正式〉(以市场研究为掩饰)做诈骗式的推销

    a market researcher claims the firm is sugging

    一名市场调查员声称该公司正在进行诈骗式的推销。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's not just unethical practices like "push-polling" and "sugging" that influence survey respondents.
    • This practice, along with continued ‘sugging’ and ‘frugging,’ accelerates the tend, as Democratic pollster Mark Melman observed in a 1996 interview with John Nielson broadcast on National Public Radio's ‘All Things Considered.’
    • I was a victim of sugging the other day when a foreign call centre gave me every impression it was conducting market research about attitudes to tax.

Origin

1980s: acronym from sell under the guise.

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