caveat emptor
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As the phrase goes in Latin — caveat emptor, or “let the buyer beware.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2024
"This is one of the caveat emptor things that all foreign would-be acquirers should keep in mind."
From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023
Do you see any universe in which there is a regulatory framework that has the caveat emptor stuff labeled out there the way you guys want it to be?
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2022
For anyone relying on access to public charging stations, at least in my part of town, I’d issue an electric caveat emptor.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2018
The caveat emptor side of the law, like the caveat emptor side of business, seemed to me repellent; it did not make for social fair dealing.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore