overcharge
Use Overcharge in a sentence
vərˈtʃɑrdʒ; verb (used with object)
1.
to charge (a purchaser) too high a price: When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.
2.
to fill too full; overload.
3.
to exaggerate: to overcharge the importance of ancestry.
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| overcharge | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to charge too much |
| 2. | (tr) to fill or load beyond capacity |
| 3. | literary another word for exaggerate |
| —n | |
| 4. | an excessive price or charge |
| 5. | an excessive load |
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Word Origin & History
overcharge
c.1300, "to overload, overburden," from over + charge. Meaning "to charge someone too much money" is from 1667.
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Example sentences
But beware of big, sprawling, white-shoe corporate law firms that overcharge.
Perhaps they exploit their stronger market position to overcharge their customers.
It is not our best interest to overcharge these customer.
In cars, as in laptops, the cause could be a manufacturing defect or an overcharge.
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