overcharge
Americanverb (used with object)
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to charge (a purchaser) too high a price.
When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.
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to fill too full; overload.
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to exaggerate.
to overcharge the importance of ancestry.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a charge in excess of a stated or just price.
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an act of overcharging.
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an excessive load.
verb
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to charge too much
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(tr) to fill or load beyond capacity
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literary another word for exaggerate
noun
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an excessive price or charge
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an excessive load
Other Word Forms
- overcharger noun
Etymology
Origin of overcharge
Example Sentences
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C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
The HUD figure, which is based on Census data for typical apartment rents in an area, is used to ensure landlords cannot overcharge low-income residents with housing choice vouchers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
In practice, many insurers overcharge the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in inflated estimates, often by adding diagnosis codes that make individuals appear sicker on paper than they are in reality.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024
Due to this capture, Google is able to overcharge text-ad clients and shroud its actual terms in secrecy in a way that it hasn’t with more visually oriented ads.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024
If the battery is charged daily, it should receive an overcharge once a week, or if charged less frequently, an overcharge should be given at least once every two weeks.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
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