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Definition of overcharge in English: overchargeverb əʊvəˈtʃɑːdʒˌoʊvərˈtʃɑrdʒ [with object]1Charge (someone) too high a price for goods or a service. send your bill to the Law Society if you think you've been overcharged Example sentencesExamples - Does anyone know a good vet (who won't overcharge us either)?
- Leaked internal e-mails appeared to reveal that, until last year, sales staff were encouraged to overcharge some customers for boiler and central heating installation.
- Many hospitals have overcharged the bureau for medicine, requesting fee compensations at above-market prices.
- Most travelers feel like they're being overcharged at airport restaurants and retail stores.
- Consumers are painfully overcharged in all aspects of their business transactions.
- Punish those petrol dealers who overcharge and top up their profits with our already overtaxed money.
- Tenants are entitled to ask for a rental review if they believe that they are being overcharged.
- One afternoon this week, I took a taxi and upon arrival at my destination, this taxi driver decided to overcharge me and my friend.
- We have never felt we were overcharged for anything and have always gotten good value for our money.
- They were taken to Winchester, Virginia, where they were overcharged for their room and board.
- Since then, we have had no problems though occasionally I feel he overcharges us.
- You may ask, how can a provider overcharge when the fees are fixed?
- The European Commission is cracking down on national mobile operators who overcharge fixed line operators for connecting to their network.
- The amount covered other scandals where customers of the bank were overcharged, including business clients and university students.
- To make sure you are not being overcharged, you should first check your tax code.
- The disputed bill had transposed the two, with the result that it was overcharging you.
- When a private company overcharges its customers, it is called price gouging.
- Even if they intend to overcharge us, who could have the heart to say no?
- These will make sure the lender is not overcharging you.
- I don't see any reason to overcharge people who are doing me a favor by shopping with me.
Synonyms swindle, charge too much, cheat, defraud, gazump, fleece, short-change, surcharge informal rip off, sting, screw, soak, rob, diddle, do, rook, clip North American informal gouge British informal, dated rush - 1.1 Charge someone (a sum) beyond the correct amount.
with two objects customers have been overcharged £12 million in the last year Example sentencesExamples - Write to your bank and demand the money you believe you have been overcharged.
- Payments to customers included interest on the original sums overcharged.
- The village officials had overcharged peasants by at least $6,000.
- He doesn't scurry through his phone bill and make sure he wasn't overcharged.
- Amy began to complain that she thought they had overcharged us, and then we realised that they had in fact forgotten to charge us for any of the puddings.
- Consumers were estimated to have been overcharged by $480 million.
- The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.
- Last Friday, I phoned up the company that insures my car, as they had overcharged me (they had taken a payment out twice, by mistake).
- And if anybody is overcharging the government, we expect them to repay that money.
Synonyms swindle, charge too much, cheat, defraud, gazump, fleece, short-change, surcharge
2Put too much electric charge into (a battery) large generators can overcharge batteries Example sentencesExamples - A controller keeps the batteries from being overcharged, and an inverter converts DC electricity produced by the solar panels into AC electricity typically used by home appliances.
- You gently overcharge the batteries to make sure that the weakest cells are brought up to full charge.
noun ˈəʊvətʃɑːdʒˈoʊvərˌtʃɑrdʒ An excessive charge for goods or a service. Example sentencesExamples - They are verifying records and seeking to ensure that any rumored bogus claims and overcharges are caught.
- The sales rotate every week or two, and if you follow the pattern for a few cycles you see that every discount or freebie is offset by an overcharge (relative to market prices) for something else.
- Our client wonders in whose pocket this overcharge ended up.
- The amount of money is set so high - a gross overcharge - that families with ordinary income find it very hard to comply.
- The committee recognises that the overcharges to the Dental Practice Board were relatively small in monetary terms.
- The White House asked for the study partly because Congress has taken an ongoing interest in indirect research costs, particularly after several incidents in the late 1980s involving alleged overcharges.
- The deal varies from oil reserves to an overcharge for goods and service to a secret fund discovered in government accounts.
- It was decided at the time that buyers could not claim damages for overcharges by antitrust violators unless they bought the product directly from the manufacturer.
- They're often unable to protect the client from contractor overcharges.
- She'll eat a loss before handing over her driver's license to reverse an overcharge at Kmart.
- Dealing with overcharges and processing refunds is time consuming and places undue administrative costs on the program.
- Tens of millions, at least, appear to be overcharges.
- This process does transfer ground rent from areas of overcharge to areas of undercharge.
- Borrowers, reveling in their lower monthly payments, blithely absorb the overcharges.
- For those covered under Blue Cross, the overcharge was $24 a month.
Definition of overcharge in US English: overchargeverbˌoʊvərˈtʃɑrdʒˌōvərˈCHärj [with object]1Charge (someone) too high a price for goods or a service. that makes it easy for wheeler-dealers to overcharge customers Example sentencesExamples - Many hospitals have overcharged the bureau for medicine, requesting fee compensations at above-market prices.
- Does anyone know a good vet (who won't overcharge us either)?
- The European Commission is cracking down on national mobile operators who overcharge fixed line operators for connecting to their network.
- Punish those petrol dealers who overcharge and top up their profits with our already overtaxed money.
- Leaked internal e-mails appeared to reveal that, until last year, sales staff were encouraged to overcharge some customers for boiler and central heating installation.
- Even if they intend to overcharge us, who could have the heart to say no?
- Tenants are entitled to ask for a rental review if they believe that they are being overcharged.
- The amount covered other scandals where customers of the bank were overcharged, including business clients and university students.
- They were taken to Winchester, Virginia, where they were overcharged for their room and board.
- I don't see any reason to overcharge people who are doing me a favor by shopping with me.
- Consumers are painfully overcharged in all aspects of their business transactions.
- To make sure you are not being overcharged, you should first check your tax code.
- These will make sure the lender is not overcharging you.
- When a private company overcharges its customers, it is called price gouging.
- The disputed bill had transposed the two, with the result that it was overcharging you.
- One afternoon this week, I took a taxi and upon arrival at my destination, this taxi driver decided to overcharge me and my friend.
- We have never felt we were overcharged for anything and have always gotten good value for our money.
- Most travelers feel like they're being overcharged at airport restaurants and retail stores.
- Since then, we have had no problems though occasionally I feel he overcharges us.
- You may ask, how can a provider overcharge when the fees are fixed?
Synonyms swindle, charge too much, cheat, defraud, gazump, fleece, short-change, surcharge - 1.1 Charge someone (a sum) beyond the correct amount.
with two objects the company overcharged the government $3 million Example sentencesExamples - Payments to customers included interest on the original sums overcharged.
- Consumers were estimated to have been overcharged by $480 million.
- The village officials had overcharged peasants by at least $6,000.
- The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.
- Write to your bank and demand the money you believe you have been overcharged.
- Amy began to complain that she thought they had overcharged us, and then we realised that they had in fact forgotten to charge us for any of the puddings.
- Last Friday, I phoned up the company that insures my car, as they had overcharged me (they had taken a payment out twice, by mistake).
- And if anybody is overcharging the government, we expect them to repay that money.
- He doesn't scurry through his phone bill and make sure he wasn't overcharged.
Synonyms swindle, charge too much, cheat, defraud, gazump, fleece, short-change, surcharge
2Put too much electric charge into (a battery). Example sentencesExamples - A controller keeps the batteries from being overcharged, and an inverter converts DC electricity produced by the solar panels into AC electricity typically used by home appliances.
- You gently overcharge the batteries to make sure that the weakest cells are brought up to full charge.
nounˈoʊvərˌtʃɑrdʒˈōvərˌCHärj An excessive charge for goods or a service. Example sentencesExamples - The White House asked for the study partly because Congress has taken an ongoing interest in indirect research costs, particularly after several incidents in the late 1980s involving alleged overcharges.
- The deal varies from oil reserves to an overcharge for goods and service to a secret fund discovered in government accounts.
- The sales rotate every week or two, and if you follow the pattern for a few cycles you see that every discount or freebie is offset by an overcharge (relative to market prices) for something else.
- Our client wonders in whose pocket this overcharge ended up.
- They are verifying records and seeking to ensure that any rumored bogus claims and overcharges are caught.
- She'll eat a loss before handing over her driver's license to reverse an overcharge at Kmart.
- The amount of money is set so high - a gross overcharge - that families with ordinary income find it very hard to comply.
- The committee recognises that the overcharges to the Dental Practice Board were relatively small in monetary terms.
- They're often unable to protect the client from contractor overcharges.
- For those covered under Blue Cross, the overcharge was $24 a month.
- It was decided at the time that buyers could not claim damages for overcharges by antitrust violators unless they bought the product directly from the manufacturer.
- This process does transfer ground rent from areas of overcharge to areas of undercharge.
- Borrowers, reveling in their lower monthly payments, blithely absorb the overcharges.
- Tens of millions, at least, appear to be overcharges.
- Dealing with overcharges and processing refunds is time consuming and places undue administrative costs on the program.
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