Defenition of the word shill

• Defenition of the word shill

  • A person who profits from helping another person or organization to sell goods or services and/or attract customers while pretending to be impartial.
  • To help another person or organization to sell goods or services and/or attract customers while pretending to be impartial.
  • act as a shill
  • a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
  • act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"

Hypernyms for the word shill

• • cozen
  • deceive
  • decoy
  • delude
  • lead on
  • steerer

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