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Meanings of overcharge in English

Portuguese
sobrecarregar
Catalan
robar
Spanish
robar

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

sobrecarregar

Overcharge is an economic term that refers to the difference between an observed market price and a price that would have been observed in the absence of collusion.

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Examples for "overcharging"
Examples for "overcharging"
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The outcome is a complex system that can easily result in overcharging.
The Guardian
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Regulators in the past have accused insurers of overcharging for the policies.
Reuters
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That effectively makes the boards responsible for preventing a battery from overcharging.
Reuters
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Davey has suggested the worst overcharging was for gas, rather than electricity.
The Guardian
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Did you steal 'em, or are you just overcharging us, as usual?
Main Street
Usage of overcharge in English
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You have encouraged him, in every way you know how to overcharge.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
2
Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public.
My Life and Work
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An' if you've bin gifted with compassion, cabby, don't overcharge your fare.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
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A ten-cent overcharge, but now was not the time to count her change.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
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And when I fatuously agreed to this overcharge it merely increased her contempt.
All the way
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On soda the overcharge is said to be 50 per cent.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
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I will fill your cart, sir; and not overcharge you neither.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
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And sit behind the desk and allure guests and overcharge them-
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
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They also shouldn't overcharge you, meaning annual fees of less than 1 percent.
Reuters
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That wedding bakers and dress makers ordinarily overcharge may add to Bridezilla's myth.
The Guardian
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The early ones would overcharge him, or give him bad shit.
A visible darkness
12
Perhaps he's one of the many who's tried to overcharge me.
The Boy Scout Aviators
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Somebody can drive her back to Vannes, and don't overcharge her, you robbers!
Frances Waldeaux: A Novel
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By following this plan I generally escaped overcharge and inconvenience.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
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I ask for a thing what it is worth to me, and never overcharge.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Well, ma'am, there was an error in your bill-anovercharge.
True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings
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Translations for overcharge
Portuguese
sobrecarregar
Spanish
robar
Overcharge through the time
Overcharge across language varieties
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