Question of the Day #653

“We capped late fees, and a subset of landlords responded to that to try to figure out a way to fleece their tenants for money in other ways,” Ratti said. 

From the 10th paragraph of this article at Nevada Current.

上記の文で、fleeceの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "fleece" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

他動詞

1. 〔羊の毛を〕刈る
2. 〔～を〕フリース（状の物）で覆う
3. 〔～に〕法外な値段を吹っ掛ける、～から金品を巻き上げる

問題文の場合は、当然３番目の訳です。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

1. 1. to strip of money or property by fraud or extortion
   2. to charge excessively for goods or services
2. to remove the fleece from : SHEAR
3. to dot or cover with fleecy masses

Examples

• The company fleeced me for several thousand dollars at an all day seminar.
• Don't let that salesman fleece you.
• That restaurant really fleeced us!
• He was fleecing investors by setting up bogus companies and then manipulating the price of their stocks.
• On top of all that, ministers will not want to fleece the taxpayer. Times, Sunday Times (2016)

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