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Definition:

To provide incomplete information to gain an advantage.

Example Dialogue:

A: Why are you so confident that you will meet your sales quota this year?
B: I sandbagged when I provided upper management the numbers. I gave my boss such low numbers that it will be easy to meet my sales quota.

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1 year, 11 months ago by James Wong # 1178
Can it be applied to both intensifing and degrading the actual scenario/data/information ?

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