price-gougev.
/ˈprʌɪsɡaʊdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpraɪsˌɡaʊdʒ/ Chiefly North American.
transitive. To charge (a customer) an inflated price for something, esp. to take advantage of high demand. Also intransitive in same sense. Cf. gouge v. 4.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices)
raise?a1513
enhance1542
enhaulse1600
exhance1667
inflamea1687
to run up1709
rise1740
to put up1838
hike1904
up1934
price-gouge1940
uplift1962
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > rise (of prices) > increase prices
to raise the market1535
inflate1940
rocket1958
price-gouge1968
1940 Detroit Free Press 30 July 6/1 Almost all of our imported rubber is obtained by grace of the International Rubber Regulation Committee in London, which monopolizes most of the world's supply, and which at times..has price gouged American consumers.
1968 S. Yurick Bag x. 444 They had marked all the stores according to whether or not they price-gouged; and they were systematically blowing up the stores of the gougers and sparing the others.
1984 Jrnl. Econ. Issues 18 306 The technology providers will be trying to price gouge or impose restrictive conditions to their own advantage.
2011 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 20 Mar. (Herald-Times ed.) a6/2 Just because spring break is starting does not mean that the local oil companies should be able to price-gouge the consumers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1940