sandbagging
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Closing a deal despite already knowing a representation is false, then suing on the breach afterwards.
The buyer's counsel demanded a pro-sandbagging clause so a defect they already knew about would still support an indemnity claim after completion.
Business noun
A buyer's right to close a deal and then claim indemnity for warranty breaches it already knew about at signing.
Their counsel slipped in an anti-sandbagging line, which guts our indemnity for anything we spotted in diligence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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