Meaning & use
Mis-sell
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To sell a product or service to someone by giving misleading, incomplete, or false information about it.
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The bank was fined heavily after regulators found it had mis-sold insurance policies to thousands of customers.
Consumers can file complaints if they believe they were mis-sold a financial product.
A note on using this word
Commonly written with a hyphen as 'mis-sell,' this term is especially prominent in British financial and consumer protection law, as in the phrase 'mis-selling scandal.'
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