salami slicing

Definitions

Electronics

• A scheme in which minimal amounts of money, usually less than 0.1 cent, are taken from multiple, often millions, of accounts or transactions, so as to accumulate a large amount of stolen money while attempting to avoid detection due to the minor individual quantities involved.
• To reduce anything favorable, such as the level of quality control and/or service, very gradually in the attempt to escape notice by those affected.

Health Economics

• (written as Salami Slicing)
  The identification of patient sub-groups for whom cost-effectiveness is highest and that may make a case for a higher price for the technology in question.

Nearby Definitions of “salami slicing”

• salamander
• salame
• salame milanese
• salami
• salami fraud
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• salary
• salary ceiling
• sale
• sale or return
• sales contract

Contexts for “salami slicing”

3 definitions in context
• Electronics
• Health Economics