bite
/baɪt/ verb [I]Definition
start/begin to bite › to start to have a bad effect on something: When the credit crunch started to bite, many smaller firms were forced out of business. Sales will slow as interest rates begin to bite.
(Definition of bite verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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