Ääntäminen
US
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| espanja | testaferro, hombre de paja, prevaricar, andar en chanchullos, trapichear, trapisondar, encubrir, disimular, tapar, enterrar, compinche, palero, señuelo |
| italia | trafficare, prevaricare, prestanome, brogliare, uomo di paglia, compare, comparsa |
| japani | サクラ (sakura / katakana, alternative spelling), 桜 (sakura) |
| puola | słup |
| ranska | tripoter, trafiquer, prête-nom, prévariquer, homme de paille, magouiller, faire l'homme de paille, cacher, dissimuler, couvrir, taire, celer, étouffer, enterrer, occulter, commère, compère, comparse, passer sous silence, mettre sous le boisseau |
| ruotsi | lockfågel |
| saksa | Anreisser, Anreißer, Anreißerin, Anreisserin, Ware anpreisen, Lockvogel, Gehilfe des Schaustellers, Gehilfe des Hausierers, Gehilfin des Schaustellers, Gehilfin des Hausierers |
| suomi | maksettu apuri, peittää, vedättäjä |
| venäjä | подсадная утка (podsadnaja utka), впаривать (vparivat), подставное лицо (podstavnoje litso) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- (derogatory) Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
- (gambling) A house player in a casino.
Verbi
- (derogatory, intransitive, transitive) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.
- To put under cover; to sheal.
- (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
Esimerkit
- You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
- Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
- 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.
- 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.
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