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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of missell.
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Examples
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								LONDON—The U.K. High Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by British banks for a review of rules covering payments to customers who were missold payment-protection insurance. U.K. Banks Lose Challenge to Insurance Rules Marietta Cauchi 2011 
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								Over Sales of Funds Barclays PLC was fined £ 7.7 million $12.23 million and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds. 
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								£ 68 Million Charge LONDON — U.K. bank Barclays PLC was slapped with a £ 7.7 million $12.23 million fine Tuesday and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds. Barclays Hit With Margot Patrick 2011 
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								Barclays was hit with a £ 7.7 million $12.2 million fine and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds. Business Watch 2011 
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								I get the impression that the Crippled God has been missold to us as the series' closest equivalent to a dark lord, when a better analogue is that he is a castaway who just wants to go home, but left to his own devices could destroy the world. Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson Adam Whitehead 2009 
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								Many CEOs have missold insurance business plans to their promoters, promising them indecent returns through an IPO or stake sale when fairy-tale valuations hit the sky. Right Man for the Wrong Job? P. Nandagopal 2009 
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								PPI or payment protection insurance has been missold to many thousands of UK loan and mortgage customers over the past decade. Archive 2008-05-01 Thatsnews 2008 
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								Perhaps no one remembers endowment misselling or pensions misselling when a whole group of so called "independent" financial advisors missold life assurance - pocketed big up front fees and then in many cases collapsed their companies leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces. 
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								So either I've misunderstood the thesis, it's been missold, or it's wrong. "Crisis = opportunity + danger." Ann Althouse 2007 
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								The Sixth Sense trailer also missold majorly I was working in a cinema so I must have seen it 40 times or so "What if some of them don't want help?" M-I 3 Rogers 2005 
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