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overcharge
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a price that is too high v. rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: soak , surcharge , gazump , fleece , plume , pluck , rob , hook ] [ant: undercharge ] place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn: overload , surcharge ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overcharge \O`ver*charge"\, v. t. [Cf. Supercharge , Surcharge .] To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. --Sir W. Raleigh. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. --Addison. To charge (a buyer) an ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 . The latter is often called a "but-for price" or a competitive "benchmark price". When collusion ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An excessive load or burden. 2 An excessive charge in an account. vb. 1 to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill 2 to continue to charge an electric device beyond its electrical capacity 3 To ...
Usage examples of overcharge.
French public institution, terribly overcharged with functionaires, in this case officious, functionary lifeguards.
Presumably Mamak thought he was overcharging, but it was still cheap by city standards.
But it is probable that at the lower part of the chimney, time may have accumulated rocks, cinders, hardened lava, and that this valve of which I spoke, may at any time become overcharged.
Citigroup operations systematically overcharge and underfund poor and minority communities.
Overcharging monopolistic pirates they may be, but what they do is essential, and what they do to people who bother their ansibles is .
In a random examination of three dozen repair jobs, this newspaper documented truckloads of missing materials, projects paid for but never done, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharges.
And all the time he had to try to stop the Javas from madly overcharging, from ramming two cartridges into their guns, and any bits of metal they could find.
And even that wasnt working properly: by some trick of his overcharged brain, he felt surrounded by the beautiful, delicate scent of morning glories.
She was a bit irritated when she was grossly overcharged for a misshapen clay mug for klah.
To her, this was a mixture of physical pain with the subliminal relief of tiny increments of selyn drained off her overcharged system.
The steady fanir's rhythm drove into and through Digen, powered by the Gen's overcharged selyn field.
Orley's body jerked as tranks hit him from all sides, but it took far too long for them to override the adrenal reactions of the overcharged telempath.
Taking out those satellites must have really overcharged the power storage banks down here.
We have clearly overcharged the power storage systems on the time transporter.
Any overcharged customer can file a Sherman Act suit, even if the government concludes no monopoly exists.