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palm off
verb
palmed off; palming off; palms off
1
: to dispose of usually by trickery or guile
2
: pass off sense 2
palming himself off as a minister—Toni Morrison
Examples of palm off in a Sentence
please stop trying to palm off your leftovers onto me
Recent Examples on the Web
And there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
Giannoli’s narrator lays out press performance in Balzacian details that sound absolutely contemporary: News, debate, and ideas had become goods to palm off on subscribers.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022
However, in spite of this price increase and attempts to palm off blame, there is hardly any middle-class anger even resembling that which existed during the last years of the UPA.
—Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 21 Feb. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Cite this Entry
“Palm off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palm%20off. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
palm off
verb
: to get rid of or pass on (as something fake, useless, or of poor quality) in a dishonest way
palmed off fake antiques on unsuspecting customers
Legal Definition
palm off
transitive verb
: to sell or attempt to sell (a product) by inducing buyers to believe that one's product is actually the product of another
specifically
: to attempt to sell (a product) under another's trademark or trade name
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