overcharge
verb
over·charge ˌō-vər-ˈchärj 
overcharged; overcharging; overcharges
transitive verb
1
: to charge too much or too fully
2
: to fill too full
3
: exaggerate, overdraw
intransitive verb
: to make an excessive charge
overcharge
ˈō-vər-ˌchärj
noun 
Synonyms
- gouge
- soak
- sting
- surcharge
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Example Sentences
He overcharges for car repairs. He overcharges his customers for car repairs. The store overcharged me for my skirt.
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Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 31 July 2022 Insurers and PBMs have even devised schemes to overcharge patients for generic drugs. Howard Dean, Fortune, 26 July 2022 But there are some cases where ACI has been known to overcharge for its products, well above outside competitors. Joseph Darius Jaafari, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2022 Prosecutors may also overcharge defendants to pressure them into pleading guilty for a lesser charge, rather than take their case to trial, Farrell said. Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022 How did EZ Pass overcharge 6,000 Ohio accounts by seriously big margins? Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021 Private suppliers in many sectors such as infrastructure, defense and health care would overcharge the government at prices many times the market rate, offering kickbacks to the state officials involved. Stanislav Markus, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022 The supply chain issues have left an opportunity for companies to fix prices and overcharge customers, the Justice Department said. Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022 Police interrogated Hutchinson and also confronted him with their suspicion that he might be involved in a scheme to overcharge customers at Bruce Miller’s lot. Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2022 See More
Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 31 July 2022 Insurers and PBMs have even devised schemes to overcharge patients for generic drugs. Howard Dean, Fortune, 26 July 2022 But there are some cases where ACI has been known to overcharge for its products, well above outside competitors. Joseph Darius Jaafari, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2022 Prosecutors may also overcharge defendants to pressure them into pleading guilty for a lesser charge, rather than take their case to trial, Farrell said. Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022 How did EZ Pass overcharge 6,000 Ohio accounts by seriously big margins? Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021 Private suppliers in many sectors such as infrastructure, defense and health care would overcharge the government at prices many times the market rate, offering kickbacks to the state officials involved. Stanislav Markus, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022 The supply chain issues have left an opportunity for companies to fix prices and overcharge customers, the Justice Department said. Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022 Police interrogated Hutchinson and also confronted him with their suspicion that he might be involved in a scheme to overcharge customers at Bruce Miller’s lot. Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Kids Definition
overcharge
verb
over·charge ˌō-vər-ˈchärj
overcharged; overcharging
: to charge too much money
overcharging 1 of 2
noun
as in extortion
the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services stores that were prosecuted for overcharging during and after the hurricane Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- extortion
- gouging
- fleecing
- cheating
- defrauding
- swindling
- highway robbery
- chiselling
- chiseling
- skinning
overcharging
2 of 2verb
1
as in gouging
to charge (someone) too much for goods or services I think that store may have overcharged us for the shoes, which were supposed to be on sale Synonyms & Similar Words
- gouging
- stinging
- defrauding
- cheating
- surcharging
- fleecing
- soaking
- clipping
- sticking
- mischarging
- skinning
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- undercharging
2
as in overloading
to fill or load to excess overcharged his thesis with long, fancy words Synonyms & Similar Words
- overloading
- loading
- overfilling
- overburdening
- stuffing
- charging
- burdening
- saddling
- weighting
- encumbering
- lading
- lumbering
- ladening
- weighing down
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unloading
- lightening
- unburdening
- equidaes
- equidistances
- equidistant
- equidistantly
- equids
- equifinal
- equifinality
- equiform
- equiformal
- equiformity
- equiglacial line
- equigranular
- equilater
- equilateral
- equilateral arch
- equilateral cross
- equilateral hyperbola
- equilateral triangle
- equilaterally
- equilaterals
- equilibrant
- equilibrants
- equilibrate
- equilibrated
- equilibrates