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Water
In auto sales, a slang term for false equity. For example, water occurs when a car owner claims $3,000 in equity on a vehicle when she only has $1,500 in equity.


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THE City's watchdog is being accused of "capitulation" after watering down key proposals to rein in bank pay.
The two biggest political groups in the parliament, the conservatives and the Socialists, had supported a watering down, but Liberals, Greens and some dissenting Socialists managed to outnumber them in the vote.
Watering down God''s vision is like having someone water down your fruit punch.
 
 
 
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