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Caveat emptor
has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
| given to using long words. |
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Caveat emptor [(kav-ee-aht, kah-vee-aht emp-tawr)]Latin for “Let the buyer beware.” It means that a customer should be cautious and alert to the possibility of being cheated: “Caveat emptor is the first rule of buying a used car.”
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caveat emptor
(Latin: "let the buyer beware"), in the law of commercial transactions, principle that the buyer purchases at his own risk in the absence of an express warranty in the contract
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