changing shirts
n.— «The most criticized part of the program was one that allowed companies to merely re-incorporate under a new name, move into a zone and claim benefits for creating new jobs. A 2005 law overhauling the programs outlawed that practice, known as “changing shirts.”» —“State faces problems in getting subsidies returned” by Jay Gallagher in Albany Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York) July 18, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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