Crossword clues for overcharge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overcharge \O"ver*charge`\, n. [Cf. Supercargo, Supercharge.]
An excessive load or burden.
An excessive charge in an account.
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 excessive price; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
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(Electricity) To charge (a battery) too much, so as to cause damage.
Overcharged mine. (Mil.) See Globe of compression, under Globe.
Overcharge \O`ver*charge"\, v. i. To make excessive charges.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress. 4 To fill too full; to crowd. 5 To exaggerate.
WordNet
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 is not in use, such as by privately owned businesses, overcharge is considered as a markup of the observed market price for the sole profit of the business and in some states is considered illegal, similar to profiteering and price gouging.
An overcharge may be expressed as a mark-up on the benchmark price, or it may be divided by the observed market price. When the benchmark price is equal to the marginal cost of production, as it is in perfect competition, then ratio of the overcharge to market price is the Lerner Index of market power.
When the overcharge is multiplied by the quantity purchased, it becomes the monetary injury or damages incurred by a buyer of goods sold by a cartel.
The word is also used (as verb and noun) to describe cases where more than an agreed or standard price is charged for goods or services in a transaction, as when a lawyer bills for more hours than actually worked, a restaurant bill includes items not ordered or is added incorrectly, a builder charges an unreasonable amount for repair work, and so on. Overcharging in this sense may in some cases be a criminal offence (charging for work not done), in others not (a high charge when a price was not agreed).
The term is used in a different sense in US legal circles; overcharging in this context is a practice whereby the District Attorney's office in a county initially makes criminal charges against a suspect that exceed what is actually justified by the facts to establish a strong plea bargaining position, with the intention of persuading the suspect to plead guilty to a lesser offence to avoid the perceived risk of being convicted of a more serious crime than was actually committed, with more severe penalty.
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.