skimming
IPA: skˈɪmɪŋ
noun
- Something skimmed from a surface etc.
- A motion or action that skims.
- (uncountable) The sport of skimboarding.
- (crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
- (uncountable, finance) Short for price skimming. [(business) A price-setting strategy in which a new product or service is offered at the highest practical price (to capture consumer surplus or exploit a monopolistic position), and that price is then lowered over time.]
- (uncountable, economics) Short for cream skimming. [(economics, derogatory) The business practice of providing a product or service only to high-value or low-cost customers, while disregarding clients that are less profitable for the company.]
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Examples of "skimming" in Sentences
- I didn't notice it in skimming the article.
- Reading and skimming are not the same thing.
- Skimming the article for the first time is sometimes helfpul.
- Theft from ATM skimming is approaching $1 billion annually, according to Bankrate. com.
- What you call skimming was a normal transfer of funds within different parts of a corporation.
- However, I'm not sure I can buy that the story "goes over my head" because I'm a "skimming"-style reader.
- All the costs are offloaded to the taxpayer, and the employer is probably skimming from the worker as well.
- When a book has TMI for me, I begin skimming past all the excess 'whatever' to get to the next significant part of the story.
- He had came in skimming the ocean then shot up the clift past a radar site with caught him but too late to do any thing about it.
- Watch out for "skimming" - "Skim Artists" are thieves who use small electronic devices, known as "skimmers" to capture a person's credit card information.
- SANDY - Investigators are warning about the threat posed by "skimming" - a growing crime where thieves use electronic devices to steal victims 'credit and debit card information - after a device was discovered recently inside a gas pump.
- Verifone points to research from the Mercator Advisory Group that found 70 percent of credit card "skimming" -- the theft of credit card numbers and other information in the course of running a legitimate transaction -- occurs in restaurants.
- Frank E. Moss, deputy assistant secretary of state for passport services, said in an interview on Tuesday that government tests confirmed privacy advocates 'suspicions that the electronic passport might be vulnerable to so-called skimming from a greater distance than officials had previously said, meaning a matter of three or so feet instead of inches.