gold-plating

[gohld-pley-ting]

gold-plat·ing

[gohld-pley-ting]
noun
1.
the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
2.
any expensive nonessential item, convenience, or feature: an apartment with a sauna and other gold-plating.

Origin:
1960–65

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Gold-plating is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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gold-plate

[gohld-pleyt]
verb (used with object), gold-plat·ed, gold-plat·ing.
1.
to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
2.
to incorporate costly features or refinements into (something) unnecessarily: The engineers were accused of gold-plating the construction project.
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