Yank tank n.— «The mayor says he hopes to increase the fee to $20 next year, with a special super-sized congestion charge of $50 on the vehicles he hates most—those gas-guzzling, road-hogging, American-style sport-utility vehicles. They...
autosurfing n.— «Autosurfing sounds like a great way to pick up some spare cash. You get paid for visiting certain places on the web. Each click on a site or an ad generates money for you. In the real world, this is the equivalent of...
reshop v.— «All these department stores and computer shops and other large stores that take returns don’t just throw out the returned items, they “reshop” them, which is a sellers term for returning them to the shelves...
disloyalty fee n. money charged by a bank to a client for using an automated teller machine that does not belong to the bank’s network. Editorial Note: Originally a British term, disloyalty fee now also appears in Australia, New Zealand, and...
disloyalty fee n.— «Use that bank machine that’s not from your own bank and you’re undoubtedly going to see an immediate service fee plus your own bank dings you another $1.50. That’s what’s known as a disloyalty fee and the banks say...
paint the tape v. phr.— «With another contemporary art auction cycle upon us, naive observers are again wondering about the huge prices engendered by hedge-fund speculation in contemporary art. How exactly is it done? The answer lies in a...