Parsing – Parsing ‘Have a Limited Release the Product’

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We'll have a limited release the product and let this region serve as a guinea pig.

From The Free Dictionary

I saw this sentence on The Free Dictionary and I'm stuck in interpreting it.

Is the verb ‘have’ acting as causative verb and ‘a limited’ as noun?

Best Answer

The phrase "limited release the product" is such bad construction that the reader has to guess at the meaning.

It would work as "We'll have a limited release product" -- that is a little too concise, but is correct English, and would mean that the product is being released in a limited way. A similar sentence to this meaning would be "We are making a limited release of this product." and could also be "We are making a limited release of this product [at this time]".

As for "... and let this region serve as a guinea pig", this is incomplete unless the region being referred to is clear to the reader. One could interpret it to mean "the region in which you're reading this", but in this age of World Wide Web context, it is much more difficult than it used to be to restrict your readers to one region. Perhaps it was written before that was an issue.

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