Usually means: Advertising one thing, providing another.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word bait-and-switch:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bait-and-switch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. bait-and-switch: Wiktionary
  3. bait-and-switch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  4. bait-and-switch: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. bait-and-switch: Dictionary.com
  6. Bait-and-switch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bait-and-switch: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bait-and-switch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bait-and-switch: Netlingo

Definitions from Wiktionary (bait-and-switch)

adjective:  Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.
verb:  (transitive) To exploit using bait and switch.

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